Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 13:10:51 GMT From: Graeme Geldenhuys <graeme@geldenhuys.co.uk> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/178660: US Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout is broken Message-ID: <201305151310.r4FDApNn031223@oldred.FreeBSD.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201305151320.r4FDK34e031737@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 178660
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: US Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout is broken
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 15 13:20:03 UTC 2013
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Graeme Geldenhuys
>Release: FreeBSD 9.1
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>Environment:
FreeBSD graeme-desktop 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 root@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
I setup my X11 to use the "US Programmer Dvorak" keyboard layout, but I found that the 3rd and 4th state of keys don't work. ie: pressing ralt (AltGr) simply causes the system to beep and doesn't register as the AltGr key.
After looking at the /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us file I found the problem. For the "dvp" layout, the following line was missing...
include "level3(ralt_switch)"
thus no AltGr support. Simply adding this line in, and restarting X11 the US Programmer Dvorak layout functioned correctly and I can easily type all the extra symbols like €£¥ëê etc.
>How-To-Repeat:
Setup your X11's xorg.conf file as follows...
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "dvp"
EndSection
Start X11 and try and type: RAlt+5 which should generate the € symbol. It will not. Any key combination with RAlt or RAlt+Shift will not work, until you apply the fix I mentioned earlier.
>Fix:
After looking at the /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us file I found the problem. For the "dvp" layout, the following line was missing...
include "level3(ralt_switch)"
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