Re: [STUMP] XKB input in Stumpwm?

In Ubuntu I added my custom Swedish xkbd by patching the system keyboard
settings in /usr/share/X11/xkb/{symbols/se,rules/evdev.xml}. It then works
with the standard Xorg keyboard switching utilities. I use GNOME together
with StumpWM but that should not make a difference.

- Micke


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > David Bjergaard <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> Are you running setxkbmap in .xinitrc or .stumpwmrc? It may work if you
> >> put it in .xinitrc before the 'exec stumpwm' line.
> >>
> >>     Dave
> >
> > I set it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
> >
> > Section "InputClass"
> >         Identifier "system-keyboard"
> >         MatchIsKeyboard "on"
> >         Option "XkbLayout" "us,local_us"
> >         Option "XkbVariant" ",colemak"
> >         Option "XkbOptions"
> "compose:menu,ctrl:nocaps,lv3:ralt_alt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:shifts_toggle,altwin:hyper-win"
> > EndSection
> >
> > It used to be (~six months ago and earlier) that if I set it like above,
> > with a toggle, then toggling it would only last until I switched
> > windows. BUT, if I set it directly with a shell command:
> >
> > setxkbmap -variant colemak
> >
> > Then it would 'stick', more or less. When I went to try it again a week
> > or so ago, I found that even setting it with the above invocation
> > doesn't work -- it still reverts to qwerty any time I switch windows.
> >
> > There have been several major updates to Arch's Xorg package recently, I
> > can only imagine that's where the difference has come from. But really,
> > who knows.
> >
> > I just tried editing 00-keyboard.conf so that it set colemak directly,
> > by taking the grp directive out, and setting layout and variant directly
> > to local_us and colemak. That didn't work at all: everything started in
> > qwerty, and stayed in qwerty. I have no idea why.
> >
> > I suppose I could try installing a desktop environment and using Stump
> > within that. Otherwise, I don't even know where to start debugging
> > this...
>
> Hours after writing this, Arch pushed out more major Xorg updates -- got
> to love this distribution. Anyway, setting colemak via 00-keyboard.conf
> now works as it's meant to, but I can't make it "stick" any other way.
> It's not switching windows that kills it: the first invocation of the
> prefix key resets the XKB variant to qwerty. I'm still inclined to blame
> CLX, but am still in the dark.
>
> >> Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes:
> >>
> >>> Milan Zamazal <[email protected]> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Other complaints from Debian users concern non-ASCII or Dvorak input
> in
> >>>> Stumpwm, e.g.:
> >>>>
> >>>>   It is not possible to input cyrillic characters into stumpwm
> prompts,
> >>>>   so it is not possible to exec programs with cyrillic arguments.
> >>>>
> >>>> What can be done about it?  It's probably more problem of CLX than of
> >>>> Stumpwm, is there any way to get working support for XKB input in SBCL
> >>>> and CLISP?
> >>>
> >>> Possibly faintly related: I've never gotten xkb keyboard layouts to
> work
> >>> while using Stump. If I switch to colemak with a setxkbmap invocation
> >>> (or trigger keys), it is reset to qwerty the next time I switch
> windows.
> >>>
> >>> I also suspect CLX. I left a note on the sharplispers/clx github page
> >>> (since that seems to be the implementation I'm using, via quicklisp),
> >>> but haven't heard anything.
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, if anyone digs into this issue, you might help me keep an eye
> >>> out for this issue as well...
> >>>
> >>> Eric
> >>>
> >>>
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