French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

[PJ]

Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote:
>> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I
>> am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & canadian
>> multi.
>> But the ca(multi) setting does not work either alone or with the us
>> for switching. The accent keys are dead. Maybe the option for the
>> keys should be set to nodeadkeys.
>> But this is not worth pursuing as I am spending too much time on this
>> as is. I have things under control, it just seems strange that the
>> ca(multi) cannot be installed. Could be fluxbox? Oh well.
>
> I just tried ca(multi) under fluxbox and it just works. What version of
> Xorg do you have (output of "X -version")? And what is the output of
> "grep xkb_symbols /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ca"?
>
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option    "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option  "CoreKeyboard" "yes"
    Option    "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option  "XkbLayout" "us,ca(multi)"
    Option  "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option  "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
    Option  "CustomKeycodes" "on"
EndSection
====from log:
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca(multi)"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us,ca(multi)"
(**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbOptions: "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "on"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes enabled
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard
(**) AT Keyboard: always reports core events
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) AT Keyboard: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) AT Keyboard: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) AT Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) AT Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) AT Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
====
Any idea if "CustomKeycodes" should be used? Strange that it looks like
its off for one (which one} I added this but I have no idea where or if
it should be used. Had no effect, anyway. The switch works but the
ca(multi) just does not.
Or do we have to set up a another keyboard like Keyboard1 ? I'm lost.
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