Dear All,
I usually operate my Gentoo netbook with one of two USB keyboards plugged in - a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard or an Apple Pro Keyboard. Usually, the computer responds to either of these, and its built-in keyboard, as if they were PC-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 gives ", shift-' gives @. I quite like it this way. Occasionally (usually while the Apple keyboard is plugged in, although I've seen it once while the Microsoft keyboard was plugged in), however, the computer switches to responding to both the USB keyboard and its built-in keyboard as if they were Apple-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 is @, shift-' is ". There's nothing wrong with this in itself, but unfortunately it coincides with the computer becoming very to respond to keypresses, and frequently mistaking a single keypress for a large number of multiple presses of the same key. It also coincides with the second light from the left (of six) in xkbvleds coming on, which suggests that the behaviour is switchable. Any ideas how to switch it, please?
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Dan Hatton wrote:
I usually operate my Gentoo netbook with one of two USB keyboards plugged in - a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard or an Apple Pro Keyboard. Usually, the computer responds to either of these, and its built-in keyboard, as if they were PC-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 gives ", shift-' gives @. I quite like it this way. Occasionally (usually while the Apple keyboard is plugged in, although I've seen it once while the Microsoft keyboard was plugged in), however, the computer switches to responding to both the USB keyboard and its built-in keyboard as if they were Apple-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 is @, shift-' is ". There's nothing wrong with this in itself, but unfortunately it coincides with the computer becoming very to respond to keypresses, and frequently mistaking a single keypress for a large number of multiple presses of the same key. It also coincides with the second light from the left (of six) in xkbvleds coming on, which suggests that the behaviour is switchable. Any ideas how to switch it, please?
I just accidentally answered my own question: left alt-shift toggles between the two ways of responding to the keyboard. Interesting. Especially when I want to type meta-% in emacs.
A further curiosity following on from those described below - I recompiled xorg-server with a few extra USE flags set (3dfx, sdl, hal) - now alt-shift no longer toggles the keyboard handling, and does operate as meta-shift in emacs. And the keyboard is now consistently treated as a Mac-like layout, with no LEDs lit in xkbvleds. Any thoughts?
Hi,
2009/9/6 Dan Hatton vi5u0-alug@yahoo.co.uk:
A further curiosity following on from those described below - I recompiled xorg-server with a few extra USE flags set (3dfx, sdl, hal)
- now alt-shift no longer toggles the keyboard handling, and does
operate as meta-shift in emacs. And the keyboard is now consistently treated as a Mac-like layout, with no LEDs lit in xkbvleds. Any thoughts?
Have you checked that the Xorg config is still sane/the same as you had before?
Do you know what else was affected by those USE flags? (-pt option for emerge is awesome)
Srdjan
Thanks Srdjan.
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Have you checked that the Xorg config is still sane/the same as you had before?
RCS repository suggests it's unchanged.
Do you know what else was affected by those USE flags?
Apparently the following
libdv libmpeg2 zziplib links xinit xf86-input-evdev mplayer gnome-vfs gvfs gnome-keyring totem-pl-parse gegl gimp
of which xf86-input-evdev sounds quite relevant.
I've just noticed something else these new USE flags changed: xkbvleds now has 14 lights, whereas it only used to have 6.
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Dan Hatton wrote:
A further curiosity following on from those described below - I recompiled xorg-server with a few extra USE flags set (3dfx, sdl, hal)
- now alt-shift no longer toggles the keyboard handling, and does
operate as meta-shift in emacs. And the keyboard is now consistently treated as a Mac-like layout, with no LEDs lit in xkbvleds. Any thoughts?
Solved: when the hal USE flag is set, the place to set the keyboard layout is
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-xkeyboard.fdi
see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44311.
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Dan Hatton -
Srdjan Todorovic