[Bug 174460] New: Using setxkbmap (or enabling keyboard layouts) screws up keyboard input completely

[Manuel Nickschas]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174460

           Summary: Using setxkbmap (or enabling keyboard layouts) screws up
                    keyboard input completely
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: sputnick at quassel-irc.org


Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          gcc-4.3.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

With a recent KDE trunk checkout, enabling/switching keyboard layouts
completely screws up keyboard input. The cursor keys stop working at all, and
right alt (AltGr on German keyboards) suddenly acts as an enter key. More is
probably screwed. This happens across all KDE and non-KDE applications, even in
an xterm.

This can be triggered by issuing the following:

setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us

It also can be triggered by enabling keyboard layouts in systemsettings.
Happens to me on several machines, running xorg 1.4 and 1.5.

I have a German keyboard on a Thinkpad T60p and on a W500, but I prefer having
US-intl layouts on them. As long as I don't touch the layout while logged into
KDE, this layout works fine (I set it in xorg.conf). It only stops working
after doing the above.


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