On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Borislav Gerassimov <borislavba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/10/26 Philipp Gesang <pgesang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Good morning, >> >> >> since a few days I'm experiencing an unwanted behaviour in X: after some time, >> apparently when cycling keyboard layouts, the key just don't work as expected >> anymore. For example pressing RALT will give return, the left arrow will be >> remapped to change group etc. Terminating and restarting X will remove the >> problem; everything works fine on terminals. >> >> The error is not reproducible but seems to be related to/caused by layout >> switching. And I'm switching very often. I'm using Openbox 3.4.7.2, Kxkb, >> Xorg 1.6.3.901-1. On my second box where I use wmii with keybound scripts for >> layout switching the error didn't show up yet. I'm appending xorg.conf, xkb >> configuration, and selected output of xev _after_ the error occured. Feel >> free to request any logs. >> >> Thanks for Your help! >> >> >> Philipp >> >> >> setxkbmap -print http://pastie.org/private/uxqg99n6uhap9dknis1gig >> xorg.conf http://pastie.org/private/qchqolhh0dltdtidnrxb6q >> xevents http://pastie.org/private/1a6edox5b1r8fdvkbbxoq >> > > It happens to me too. I have xorg from testing (1.7.1) with the > following drivers: ati, evdev, keyboard and mouse. Input hotplugging > is enabled with keyboard layout switching defined in the only .fdi > file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy > ("grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"). "Option DontZap > false" is in xorg.conf. Nothing abnormal I think... What about looking whether the problem is reported upstream. And reporting it if it isn't.