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Weird characters after changing keyboards
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-xkb-plugin
Component:
General

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Description markpolo 2008-08-27 09:56:24 CEST
I have up to now used only Gnome, and was just trying out Xfce. When I tried to use the xkb panel, it gave me only the options of German and English, with no option to add more (but maybe that's hidden somewhere...). 

However, the US-English option had the normal German keyboard (which is my default keyboard in Gnome), and when I tried to select the German keyboard, I got a weird "special characters" mode, as though I had the AltGr key pressed -- i.e. »đ¢€ instead of xfce.

This may be something deeper, however, as I also tried setxkbmap la (to use a home-brewed Ancient Latin keyboard), but this gave me some sort of Hindi or other eastern font, where in Gnome it allows me to type ā ē and such using the AltGr key.

I am on Fedora 9. Package versions: xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-4, xfce-xkb-plugin-0.4.3-4, libxkbfile-1.0.4-5
Comment 1 Azamat H. Hackimov editbugs 2011-05-22 21:34:06 CEST
Problem is still present?
Comment 2 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-23 01:12:42 CEST
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Bug #4327

Reported by:
markpolo
Reported on: 2008-08-27
Last modified on: 2020-05-23

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Assignee:
Alexander Iliev
CC List:
2 users

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