Error with libxklavier (xorg 6.9, gnome 2.12, freebsd 6.0)

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>> Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>  
>>> I have seen this reported before but if anyone has a solution, please 
>>> help!
>>>  
>>> I start Gnome 2.12 on my FreeBSD 6.0 with the latest ports installed 
>>> and I get a window telling me:
>>>  
>>> http://www.aphax.nl/images/xkb-gnome-error.png
>>>  
>>> (I am attaching the same link, as I have exactly the same error 
>>> window as Hans Nieser)
>>>  
>>> (It says error possible bug in libxklavier or xorg to cut a long 
>>> story short, if you have problems accessing the above link).
>>>  
>>> Xorg is 6.9.0
>>>  
>>> The gnome system has become extremely slow at times (mostly when 
>>> opening applications), and keyboard switching from english to greek 
>>> and vice versa does not work (as I suspected that it wouldn't).
>>>  
>>> Any ideas? (I have updated my ports tree just the day before 
>>> yesterday, and it took me one day (yesterday) to rebuild gnome (2nd 
>>> time) to get the same unpleasant result...
>>>  
>>> Please help.
>>
>> I'm seeing this error message too. This is the requested debug output 
>> from my system:
>>
>> % xprop -root | grep XKB
>> _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us,el", ",", 
>> "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
>> _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", 
>> "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
>> % gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
>>  layouts = [us,el]
>>  model =
>>  overrideSettings = false
>>  options = []
>>
>> One relevant change in Xorg 6.9.0 is that they renamed the greek 
>> symbols file from "gr" to "el". Although reverting this in 
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols.dir and renaming 
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/el to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/gr 
>> doesn't seem to make a difference. Even worse:
>>
>> % setxkbmap el
>> Error loading new keyboard description
>> % setxkbmap gr
>> Error loading new keyboard description
>>
>> And the weirdest thing is that libxklavier doesn't seem to have any 
>> commits in their CVS repository for two years, even though the latest 
>> release is not that old.
> 
> OK, the important issue (typing in Greek) can be fixed by doing:
> 
> ln /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/gr 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/el
> 
> This is with the following xorg.conf entries:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>     Driver         "kbd"
>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "us,el"
>     Option         "XkbVariant" ",extended"
>     Option         "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
> EndSection
> 
> As for the libxklavier warnings, there does seem to be some 
> incompatibility with the new Xorg, but from what I understood from 
> googling around, it is supposed to be fixed in Gnome 2.14.


After further investigation I've proposed a better fix for the greek 
keyboard mapping in ports/92633 that does not require any of the above.

Cheers,

Panagiotis