Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Sunday, 18 June 2023 02:42:18 BST Alan Grimes wrote:
> having extreme trouble typing this, haven't had to type qwerty in
> fifteen years, keyboard mapping I need went poof during recent update,
> rebooted for kernel 6.3,
> 
> X11 is NOT recording logs to /var/log since last year.  Console seemed
> to be barfing about not knowing what a dvorak is even though it is the
> only other ISO standard keyboard mapping.

In a consile you could try:

# loadkeys dvorak


> No way to access console barf
> from within X11, no idea where logs are if they exist.

I think console related logs will be in your syslog or dmesg, if this involves 
errors from interaction with the kernel.  Not sure anything else would be 
recorded by default.

If you use ssdm as a DM look for ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log for X 
session logs.


> here are my configs,  2010 version has:
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  7  2020 xorg.conf.d
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2490 Oct 21  2010 xorg.conf.good
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>      Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>      Driver         "kbd"
>      Option         "XkbLayout" "dvorak"
> EndSection
> 
> Since that was too simple and made too much sense, they had to make it
> uglier...
> current active config:
> 
> Section "InputClass"
>      Identifier         "keyboard-layout"
>      MatchIsKeyboard    "on"
>      Option         "XkbLayout" "dvorak"
>      Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
> #        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> atg@tortoise ~ $ setxkbmap
> Error loading new keyboard description
> atg@tortoise ~ $

Try this:

$ setxkbmap -print -verbose 10


> still have package              x11-apps/xinput-1.6.3    installed even
> tho eclean-dist wants it gone, must be error because no clue how x11 is
> supposed to work without it. =(

There was a news item three years ago about this change:

https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-04-03-deprecation-of-legacy-x11-input-drivers.html

Try to set your keyboard layout manually to minimise typing errors:

setxkbmap -layout us -variant ,dvorak

Set in your make.conf:

INPUT_DEVICES="libinput"
 
Then run:

emerge -uaNDv --with-bdeps=y @world
emerge --depclean -v -a
revdep-rebuild -v -- -a

to bring your packages up to date.

Finally, revisit your xorg.conf, these days the configuration is in seperate 
files under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf.  Something like this ought 
to work:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option "XkbVariant" ",dvorak"
        Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection


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