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megajosh2

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Registered: 2009-04-15

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AltGr key mysteriously stops working

I added these lines to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi to enable my AltGr key a long time ago:

      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">altgr-intl</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">compose:ralt</merge>

...but I noticed recently that my alt key doesn't register as an AltGr key anymore. I tested in xev to make sure. Does anybody have any idea what might be going on here?

Last edited by megajosh2 (2010-07-01 21:45:00)

teh

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Registered: 2009-07-07

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Re: AltGr key mysteriously stops working

That happened to me with the new Xorg update.

Apparently Xorg ignores 10-keymap.fdi, so I have to set "setxkbmap -layout us -variant altgr-intl" in my .xinitrc

Last edited by teh (2010-07-01 05:47:06)

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Re: AltGr key mysteriously stops working

Does anybody have any idea what might be going on here?

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dcc24

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Re: AltGr key mysteriously stops working

Xorg-server, as of version 1.8, no longer uses or cares about HAL so all HAL-related configuration is ignored. If there are important fdi files you have, you need to port them to udev rules.

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megajosh2

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Registered: 2009-04-15

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Re: AltGr key mysteriously stops working

Thanks, thanks! I thought it was probably due to a package update some time ago, but I only noticed this recently.

Last edited by megajosh2 (2010-07-01 22:00:58)