Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and Gnome upgrade

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 14:54, Magnus J wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> Tried adding the XkbVariant without any success. No xterm don't
> work either. Just found out that angle brackets "<>" are dead
> too.

Perhaps this is not the right list for you to be using.  Have you tried
posting on questions@?

> 
> Which one of the GNOME keyboard utilities? Not very familiar
> with GNOME, because I haven't really had any problem with it
> before.

gnomeapplets2 has an applet called gkb that lets you switch keyboard
layouts.

Joe

> 
> Thanks
> Magnus
>  --- Juli Mallett <jmallett at FreeBSD.org> skrev: > * De: Magnus J
> <magnus_os at yahoo.se> [ Data: 2003-03-30 ]
> > 	[ Subjecte: Problem with Swedish Keyboard after XFree86 and
> > Gnome upgrade ]
> > > I just upgraded my FreeBSD 4.7 box from XFree86 4.2.1, Gnome
> > 1.4
> > > to XFree86 4.3 and Gnome 2.2. After that, my Swedish
> > keyboard no
> > > longer works as it used to do, e.g. the characters "åäö"
> > doesn't
> > > work anymore. When I press those keys nothing happens.
> > Anyone
> > > seen this problem?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This is how my XF86Config looks like.
> > > 
> > >         ...
> > >         Identifier  "Keyboard1"
> > >         Driver      "Keyboard"
> > >         Option      "AutoRepeat" "500 30"# Specify which
> > > keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> > >         Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> > >         Option      "XkbModel" "pc98"
> > >         Option      "XkbLayout" "se"
> > > EndSection
> > 
> > Mine works fine with XkbRules=xfree86, XkbModel=pc105,
> > XkbLayout=se,
> > XkbVariant=nodeadkeys...  Do they work in e.g. xterm, or is it
> > GNOME apps you have problems with?  Likely you should run the
> > GNOME
> > Keyboard utility, which will allow you to switch.  I do,
> > however,
> > remember it doing stupid things like not showing me real
> > possible
> > choices until I had a LOCALE/LANG suitable.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > juli.
> > -- 
> > juli mallett. email: jmallett at freebsd.org; aim: bsdflata;
> > efnet: juli; 
> 
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