[FreeNX-kNX] Problems with a German keyboard with Fedora Core 5 (FC5) and freenx 0.4.4 (Rick Stout)

[Mads Jepsen]

I do not use fedoras rpm, but I had the same problem with the danish
keyboard. It could be fixed by running the gnome applet:
gkb_xmmap dk


 
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 02:44 +0200, George wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I have problems with the keyboard layout on a Fedora Core 5 system
> with the RPMs from Rick Stout. I took the SRC-RPMS from
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ for Fedora Core
> 5 and created the freenx and nx RPMs from it. The installation was not
> a problem and I can login but the keyboard layout is US instead of a
> german layout, I tried to set the keyboard manually (via kcontrol or
> setxkbmap) but not matter what I try it's always a US-Keyboard. On a
> Fedora Core 4 system everything works but not on the FC5 system, I
> assume that freenx has problems with the new "xorg layout". Is there a
> solution for this problem? 
> 
> Btw. this is the output from "setxkbmap -print":
> 
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
> Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
> xkb_keymap {
>         xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)"       }; 
>         xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
>         xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
>         xkb_symbols   { include "pc(pc101)+us"  };
>         xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc101)"     }; 
> };
> 
> and this is the output from "setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de
> -variant nodeadkeys"
> 
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
> Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us' 
> Error loading new keyboard description
> 
> I tried also a simple "setxkbmap de" but is doesn't work, the output
> is the same:
> 
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
> Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us' 
> Error loading new keyboard description
> 
> 
> Any hints how I could fix this problem, so that I can use a german
> keyboard layout?
> 
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