On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 09:52 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > There are a number of interacting issues surrounding XKB at this point, > but the bottom line is that many (most? all?) users using non-US > keyboards are pretty much dead in the water right now. > > Putting aside issues with libxklavier and keyboard options, the console > (non-X) keyboard maps, and the keyboard switching applet, it's simply > not possible to select certain keyboards which are in widespread use. > > Here's one example: in FC4 and before, the de-facto standard French > Canadian keyboard was identified as ca_enhanced, and it worked > reasonably well. (Note: This is the keyboard that is shipped by Dell, > IBM, HP, etc, and the keyboard that you you would buy at a Future > Shop/Best Buy in Quebec. English Canadian users (such as myself) use the > "us" keyboard layout. All other "Canadian keyboards" are corner cases). > > With the current set of XKB data, this keyboard is identified as ca(fr), > and it can be selected manually: > > setxkbmap "ca(fr)" > > When selected in this way, they keyboard works perfectly (except for > RightAlt-E which is labelled as Euro on newer versions of the > keyboard). > > However, this keyboard option cannot be selected at installation time, > nor can it be correctly selected after installation using the KDE or > Gnome applets, which expose the corner-case keyboards but don't provide > an option for this one. I'm assuming (from browsing Bugzilla) that > similar problems exist for some of the other international keyboards. > > (It's unclear to me where the current (X11R7) set of xkb maps came from. > They're not the legacy maps that shipped with 6.8.2, but they're not the > current xkeyboard-config maps either - perhaps they're a snapshot of > older xkeyboard-config data, since they seem closer to xkeyboard-config > than they do to the 6.8.2 set). not sure if it is the question the ca_enhanced require to edit /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg, line 91 ! layout[2] = symbols * = +%l[2]%(v[2]):2 ! layout[3] = symbols * = +pc/%l[3]%(v[3]):3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125722 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list