[openbox] Openbox and evdev don't play nice.

Rafał Mużyło galtgendo at o2.pl
Fri Jan 11 13:10:45 EST 2008


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:44:59AM -0500, Dana Jansens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> does this patch fix your problem?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dana
> 
> On Jan 10, 2008 2:27 PM, Ryan Tandy <tarpman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm still searching for a solution to the problem I documented in
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-605471.html .
> >
> > In a nutshell: When I use evdev as my keyboard driver and launch
> > openbox from my ~/.xinitrc, some keystrokes are messed up as if I were
> > using the wrong xkb model (Up is PrtScr, End is Super_L, etc).  If I
> > call openbox --restart from a terminal once it's running, or initially
> > launch it from a terminal, things are fine.  Calling openbox --restart
> > in the xinitrc doesn't help.  I have sourced /etc/profile and
> > ~/.bashrc in my xinitrc to see whether a difference in the environment
> > was causing problems, but it didn't change anything.
> >
> > Can anyone think of what might be causing this?  I can of course
> > provide any other needed information.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ryan
> >
Wel, I've got a question for you. If your keyboard is setup correctly (
namely `hal-device <your keyboard>` reports correct values - you've got
the correct fdi file and restarted hal, right ?), then see if running
`setxkbmap` fixes your problem.



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