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jass0

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Registered: 2009-02-09

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Strange behaviour on X (XkbLayout related?) [SOLVED]

Alright, so... Both problems emerged after the updates from the last few days.

Problem 1.

When I start X, my keyboard layout is probably "us" for a while instead of "fi", which it should be (right from the beginning!) according to my xorg.conf.
I'll give you an example: I'm using XFCE and MousePad as my editor. Right after I start X, I open up the editor and try my keyboard... I've got the US layout. So I open a new instance and woalah, it's with FI layout. After this, the layout stays the same.
Is this a bug or is it just me? Because, hell, I haven't touched my xorg configuration in a while and my layout used to work just fine.

Problem 2.

I keep getting this message all over the place, I never used to have it before:

Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

Hopefully there are explanations and fixes to my problems
Thank you!

Oh and here's my xorg.cong... Just in case.

no need for this anymore...

Last edited by jass0 (2009-02-10 22:58:19)

jass0

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Registered: 2009-02-09

Posts: 11

Re: Strange behaviour on X (XkbLayout related?) [SOLVED]

Problem 1 solved. I fixed it by enabling xorg input hotplugging and changed the default keyboard layout in the configuration file for hotplugged keyboards...

I'm still trying to find a fix to problem 2.

skottish

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Re: Strange behaviour on X (XkbLayout related?) [SOLVED]

On the Xlib warning. From http://www.archivesat.com/FreeBSD_curre … 535333.htm

This is harmless, it indicates that libXext has support for generic events, but the server does not yet.

I have it now also. Everything seems to work fine though.

jass0

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Registered: 2009-02-09

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Re: Strange behaviour on X (XkbLayout related?) [SOLVED]

Alright, thank you. Hopefully the server will soon support these generic events, or the warning will be silenced (preferably the former)

Rydgel

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Registered: 2008-09-04

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Re: Strange behaviour on X (XkbLayout related?) [SOLVED]

On the Xlib warning. From http://www.archivesat.com/FreeBSD_curre … 535333.htm

This is harmless, it indicates that libXext has support for generic events, but the server does not yet.

I have it now also. Everything seems to work fine though.

Scrot didn't work anymore now

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

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Re: Strange behaviour on X (XkbLayout related?) [SOLVED]

i get the warning with scrot as well, seems to still take the screenshot fine though.  it does however break my absolute favorite openbox-tiling-extension!  i could fix it if i knew any python, but i don't

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dannytatom

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Registered: 2009-02-02

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Re: Strange behaviour on X (XkbLayout related?) [SOLVED]

i get the warning with scrot as well, seems to still take the screenshot fine though.

Same here, don't get the warning anywhere else either. ;o

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