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Re: x keyboard with most keys dead since update -- faq answer 3.2 no help
Thanks so much. "setxkbmap latam" works great, so I'm all set. Back to work!
Andrew Blake
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
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> Blake Thomas Andrew wrote:
>>
>> The keys that do not work are the main alphanumeric and punctuation keys.
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> Hmm.... currently for a latin american keyboard, we (effectively) do an internal 'setxkbmap la'
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that this sets a Laos keyboard (I think this might have been right historically, but has changed, layout codes have been rationalized to match ISO 3166-1 country codes)
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> I suspect 'setxkbmap latam' will work much better....
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>> KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001,
>> root 0x7c, subw 0x0, time 10376624, (1,81), root:(1862,343),
>> state 0x10, keycode 24 (keysym 0x1000ebb, U0EBB), same_screen YES,
>> XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>> XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>> XFilterEvent returns: False
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> This turns out to be the clue needed, as U+0EBB is some Lao vowel sign, as I'm sure you know :-)
>
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