Re: [STUMP] XKB input in Stumpwm?

Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.stumpwm.devel
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Mikael Jansson <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

Where do you specify the group toggle? My custom us layout and the
colemak variant are all under /usr/share/X11/xkb, but Arch tells you to set
keyboard options in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Where do you set yours?

> 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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