German Keyboard for X

German Keyboard for X

[Marco Atzeri]

I see a glitch on the Keyboard for X (not on Mintty),
when I am running this Keyboard Layout

(--) Windows keyboard layout: "A0000407" (a0000407) "Deutsch - no dead 
keys", type 34668816
(--) Found matching XKB configuration "German (Germany)"
(--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
(--) Windows keyboard layout device identifier indicates Macintosh, 
setting Model = "macintosh"Rules = "base" Model = "macintosh" Layout = 
"de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"

the ALTGR+8 and ALTGR+9 produces {} (same as ALTGR+7 and ALTGR+0)
  instead of the expected []

The Windows Layout is coming from:
https://zauner.nllk.net/post/0014-windows-no-dead-keys/


The problem is not present with the default Windows German Layout

(--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000407" (00000407) "German", type 7
(--) Found matching XKB configuration "German (Germany)"
(--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = 
"none"

What ever this Model = "macintosh" is, I doubt having
ALTGR+8 same as ALTGR+7 makes any sense

Suggestion?

Regards
Marco



Regards
Marco

Re: German Keyboard for X

[Jon Turney]

On 05/05/2020 17:01, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> I see a glitch on the Keyboard for X (not on Mintty),
> when I am running this Keyboard Layout
> 
> (--) Windows keyboard layout: "A0000407" (a0000407) "Deutsch - no dead 
> keys", type 34668816
> (--) Found matching XKB configuration "German (Germany)"
> (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
> (--) Windows keyboard layout device identifier indicates Macintosh, 
> setting Model = "macintosh"Rules = "base" Model = "macintosh" Layout = 
> "de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
> 
> the ALTGR+8 and ALTGR+9 produces {} (same as ALTGR+7 and ALTGR+0)
>   instead of the expected []
> 
> The Windows Layout is coming from:
> https://zauner.nllk.net/post/0014-windows-no-dead-keys/
> 
> 
> The problem is not present with the default Windows German Layout
> 
> (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000407" (00000407) "German", type 7
> (--) Found matching XKB configuration "German (Germany)"
> (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
> Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = 
> "none"
> 
> What ever this Model = "macintosh" is, I doubt having
> ALTGR+8 same as ALTGR+7 makes any sense

There's some code in the X server which tries to identify if you are 
using Windows under bootcamp on a mac, with the appropriate Windows 
keyboard layout, and turns on model=mac there.

At the moment, this gets turned on if the top 2 bits of the layout ID 
are set, which really just means "non-Microsoft provided layout", which 
is perhaps too aggressive.

It's probably a bug in xkeyboard-config that combination of options 
produces mapping that's messed up like that.

> Suggestion?

i) Explicitly set the X server keyboard layout you want using setxkbmap 
or the equivalent options.

ii) Provide the information per [1] and I can add it to the set of 
layout autodetected by the server. (Not totally sure that's a the best 
idea, as there's nothing to prevent someone else publishing a different 
variant german layout with the same ID)

[1] https://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-submit-layout

Re: German Keyboard for X

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 05.05.2020 um 18:20 schrieb Jon Turney:
> On 05/05/2020 17:01, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:

> 
> There's some code in the X server which tries to identify if you are 
> using Windows under bootcamp on a mac, with the appropriate Windows 
> keyboard layout, and turns on model=mac there.
> 
> At the moment, this gets turned on if the top 2 bits of the layout ID 
> are set, which really just means "non-Microsoft provided layout", which 
> is perhaps too aggressive.
> 
> It's probably a bug in xkeyboard-config that combination of options 
> produces mapping that's messed up like that.
> 
>> Suggestion?
> 
> i) Explicitly set the X server keyboard layout you want using setxkbmap 
> or the equivalent options.

Thanks.
This resetted to the expected layout

setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant nodeadkeys

Marco