[openbox] Keybind problem (similar to the evdev one)

[Rafał Mużyło]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:00:28AM +1100, Edwin Chow wrote:
> 
> Hi, I've been using openbox for a little while now and its great. I first used it on xubuntu but now I've switched over to arch linux. There is a weird problem that happens with some of the keyboard shortcuts when X and openbox-session has started. I am using a Microsoft Internet Keyboard and have quite a few applications that are binded to some of my XF86 keys (eg XF86Standby, XF86Calculator etc). These keys refuse to work properly until I reconfigure from the root-menu. 
> 
> Also, adding xbindkeys in my autostart.sh completely screws up the keyboard, and i have to remove it from the autostart.sh before my keyboard works properly again (although I am still able to stop X with ctrl alt backspace).
> I have read about the new hal and evdev problem but I am not sure whether this is related or not. Here is my keyboard section from xorg.conf in any case:
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
>     Identifier	"Keyboard1"
>     Driver  	"kbd"
>     Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>     Option "XkbRules"	"xorg"
>     Option "XkbModel"	"microsoftpro"
>     Option "XkbLayout"	"us"
> 
> EndSection
>
A simple question first:
are you using hal 0.5.10, xf86-input-evdev 1.2.0 and hal-enabled
xorg-server 1.4.0 ? If so, then it does NOT matter what you've set in
xorg.conf, hal settings override that. Futhermore, evdev driver
requires XkbRules to be set to evdev, other settings mess up mapping.

Check if you are using the above and if so, check (and post) what does
`hal-device` report about your keyboard. Post also contents of your
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi.