followup on my Mod4 disappearing problem

[Scott Robbins]

Last night, I posted about the latest upgrade to xorg-server doing
something to my Mod4 key (the Windows key) so that I had to manually add
the mapping with xmodmap.

On my second test box, I paid more attention to what was happening. 

It turned out the the original update of xorg-server failed--it seemed
to be tied in with xkeyboard-config and the directory
/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb.  

I paid a ~bit~ more attention, but wasn't intelligent enough to capture
the output, I simply noticed an error message there.  

So, then, I tried again, just doing portupgrade -w (to not clean
beforehand) xorg server and it installed.  It had also installed
xkeyboard-config.  So, now I tried a portupgrade -f xkeyboard-config to
see if that would fix the problem (again, not thinking far enough ahead
to anticipate a problem and capture the output.)  Again, a message about
xkb flashed by (but too far up to be seen with scroll lock and up
arrow.)

So, I tried the following, which fixed the problem.  

Firstly, I did pkg_delete -xf xkeyboard-config.  Then, I moved
/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb to xkb.old.  I then installed xkeyboard-config
and this time it installed without errors.  

After that, when I did startx, xmodmap showed that my Mod4 key was back.  

So, I'm not quite sure what the problem was, but apparently, it has
something to do with /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb not being empty at some
point (I did see, as the error flashed by, a mention of that.)  Force
deleting xkeyboard-config, renaming that directory and reinstalling
xkeyboard-config fixed the issue. 


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Scott Robbins

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