bug#37897: closed (Keyboard layout not honored under Xorg)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #37897,
regarding Keyboard layout not honored under Xorg
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> Bug: Resetting locale settings
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> Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:49:36 +0200
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> Hello guix,
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> I believe that a locale-related bug has slipped in somewhere in the last 
> two-three weeks. During installation and in my configuration file, I 
> have specified de_DE specified as locale, which should translate to a 
> german keyboard layout. But since said two-three weeks, I startup with 
> what I believe is the US layout (qwerty) - and before this occurred, I 
> was once even unable to login because my keyboard layout has been 
> changed to something so obscure it didnt even seem to know basic 
> characters like the exclamation mark, while there was a number of 
> characters that could not be displayed (probably non-utf characters I 
> suppose).
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> In the latter case, I was able to login via 'loadkeys 
> /run/current-system/profile/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1' in TTY 
> (where I went with C-M-F2 or F3, nvm); but now, I am unable to set the 
> keymap via loadkeys. When I dont use sudo, I receive the message 'data 
> descriptor referring to console couldnt be found' (translated from 
> german "Dateideskriptor, der auf die Konsole verweist, konnte nicht 
> gefunden werden."); if I do use sudo, I dont get an error, but the 
> keyboard layout doesnt change.
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> I really dont know what I could've contributed to produce such a 
> situation. The only thing I noticed is that it KIND OF coincides with me 
> installing glibc to make guile stop nagging that "locale couldnt be 
> found" (or something like that).
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> Obviously, help would be appreciated :)
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> Greetings!
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> Re: bug#37897: Bug: Resetting locale settings
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> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:51:33 +0100
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> address@hidden skribis:
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> > Hello ludo, hey guys,
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> Guys and gals.  :-)
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> > I realised that when I dont specify WHICH KIND of german keyboard
> > layout I have, the problem does not occur. That is, if I use the
> > (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "de")), I dont have any problems.
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> Oh I see, the “variant” part is indeed the problem.
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> > ;;  (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "de" "latin1-nodeadkeys"))
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> If we build verbosely, we see:
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> building /gnu/store/r3pibry4qsyfs090fcxglvfr52vfq3cx-console-keymap.de.drv...
> WARNING: Can not find "latin1nodeadkeys" in "de".
> WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowmacron"
> WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowmacron"
> WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowmacron"
> WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_belowmacron"
> successfully built 
> /gnu/store/r3pibry4qsyfs090fcxglvfr52vfq3cx-console-keymap.de.drv
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> IOW, under the hood, the ‘ckbcomp’ program, which converts from XKB to
> console layout data, wans us that it doesn’t know anything about
> “latin1nodeadkeys” and then goes on to ignore the issue.  I’m not sure
> how to avoid that.
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> As noted in
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Keyboard-Layout.html>,
> the list of supported keyboard variants is to be found in the
> ‘xkeyboard-config’ package:
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>   less $(guix build xkeyboard-config)/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml
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> Though I have to admit that it’s not user-friendly.
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> Anyway, I’m closing the bug for now, but please to reopen it if you
> think further discussion is needed (or email address@hidden).
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> Thank you!
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> Ludo’.
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