Bug 3885 - Xorg 1.5.3 changes keymap after the start of openbox
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Openbox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general
Version: 3.4.7.2
Hardware: PC Linux
: P5 normal
Assignee: Dana Jansens
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Reported: 2008-12-01 14:30 EST by János Illés
Modified: 2010-03-09 17:44:24 EST
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Description János Illés 2008-12-01 14:30:03 EST 
Xorg 1.5.3 inroduces enabled input hotplugging by default, and with that cursorkeys wont work in openbox dialogs (like client-list-combined or client-menu)
reconfigure solves the problem so:
<Mikachu>okay, so the keymap changed after starting openbox thenchanges keymap after the start of openbox
Comment 1 Dana Jansens 2009-12-09 18:28:54 EST 
I'm running Xorg 1.7.3 with input hotplugging for all my devices.  I cannot reproduce this problem with the menus.

Is this still an issue or is it something that Xorg has resolved?
Comment 2 Dana Jansens 2010-02-09 11:11:07 EST 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Xorg 1.5.3 inroduces enabled input hotplugging by default, and with that
> cursorkeys wont work in openbox dialogs (like client-list-combined or
> client-menu)
> reconfigure solves the problem so:
> <Mikachu>okay, so the keymap changed after starting openbox thenchanges keymap
> after the start of openbox

Do you use more than one keyboard layout?  If so, can you show your xkb configuration (from Hal or xorg.conf or wherever you have it)?
Comment 3 Dana Jansens 2010-02-09 15:28:05 EST 
from what i can see, openbox always uses the "base" layout specified by the X server.  while other applications may use the "current" layout, which is changed by various means.  this is correct behaviour afaik, and so i think if you want openbox to use a different layout, you need to change your X config to set the desired layout as your base.  practically speaking, the base layout is whatever comes first in your hal config/xorg.conf/whatever-is-setting-your-layouts.  if you have config in more than one place they may be conflicting and causing problems for you as well.  can you check these?  thanks.
Comment 4 Dana Jansens 2010-03-04 19:51:24 EST 
waiting for feedback on this.
Comment 5 János Illés 2010-03-05 07:50:31 EST 
I've bought a new laptop a few months ago and i'm running windows on it. Currently I'm using linux in virtualbox, in which I cannot reproduce the error, but i have to mention now I have xorg-server 1.7.5 installed.
Comment 6 Dana Jansens 2010-03-06 12:57:04 EST 
okay, thanks for replying.

im in a better position to test this stuff now.  so if someone else reads this and has the same issue or similar, will you please leave a comment saying so.  otherwise im going to mark this as fixed, until hearing otherwise.
Comment 7 János Illés 2010-03-07 16:54:27 EST 
I asked the archlinux community and it seems nobody has the issue anymore.
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-March/thread.html#11754
Comment 8 Dana Jansens 2010-03-09 17:44:24 EST 
Well that is very nice to hear.  Thanks for asking around like that.