Re: AW: 'de' keyboard layout issues (Re: AW: AW: AltGr key mostly fires an additional CONTROL key)

[Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 16/08/2011 14:10, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 12/08/2011 07:48, Paul Maier wrote:
>> 1. Tilde sign
>> -------------
>>
>> Yes, file "de" patched with your de.patch and XWin invoked with "-xkbvariant
>> nodeadtilde"
>> results in a German Windows keyboard (regarding the tilde).
>>
>> I did just a renaming of the Group description there to match the pattern of
>> the other
>> xkbvariants.
> 
> I'd really appreciate it if you could re-open the upstream bug [1] for the
> tilde issue, ideally with a suitable patch and referencing this discussion.
> 
> I'd also suggest you send your other suggested changes to the xkb list [2], as
> I'm not really qualified to review them.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9752
> [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Development

xkeyboard-config bug #9752 [1] has been resolved with a change [2] to make the
tilde not a dead key in the german keyboard layout.

Perhaps you could try the lastest xkeyboard-config from git and confirm that
the change is correct :-)

If you have any other issues with the xkeyboard-config data for the german
keyboard layout, it might be more efficient to engage directly with the
xkeyboard-config maintainer, as he has a lot more expertise in this area than
I do.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9752
[2]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/symbols/de?id=49129c6358eebd248f83457dfef4ec58ad8e584c

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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