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

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

[Alan Grimes]

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

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 ~ $

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. =(

Yet agan Linux manufactures a new insoluble problem without warning and 
for no reason.

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

[Michael]

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

[Alan Grimes]

I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without having 
to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout to dvorak.

My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful.

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
     Driver         "keyboard"
         Option "XkbLayout" "us"
         Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
EndSection


Michael wrote:
> setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak 

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

[Jigme Datse]

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 16:42:15 -0400
Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net> wrote:

> I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without
> having to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout
> to dvorak.
> 
> My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful.
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     # generated from default
>      Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>      Driver         "keyboard"
>          Option "XkbLayout" "us"
>          Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Michael wrote:
> > setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak   
> 

Part of why I stepped away from the Dvorak layout.  US layout would
always, "just work".  Like there were times when I'd have to type
something when it was interpreted as US layout...  But...  

Would putting that command in your ~/.xinitirc or some equivalent work?
 It kind of would be nice if it could be done in the xorg.conf I do
 agree. 

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

[Andreas Fink]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 16:42:15 -0400
Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net> wrote:

> I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without having 
> to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout to dvorak.
> 
> My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful.
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     # generated from default
>      Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>      Driver         "keyboard"
>          Option "XkbLayout" "us"
>          Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Michael wrote:
> > setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak   
> 

I have this in my config file:
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Keyboard"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
    Option "xkbmodel" "evdev"
    Option "xkblayout" "us"
    Option "xkbvariant" "altgr-intl"
    Option "xkbrules" "evdev"
    Option "xkboptions" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Maybe it helps.