Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost

[Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:12:29 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 18 Oct 2014 09:34:53 gevisz wrote:
> > This is the continuation from the thread
> > "XFCE weather plugin does not work"
> > 
> > 2014-10-18 10:03 GMT+03:00 Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
> > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:37:16 +0100
> > > 
> > > David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> > >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:33:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick (neil@digimed.co.uk)
> > >> wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work"
> > >> 
> > >> (in <20141017223345.16c96ec8@digimed.co.uk>):
> > >> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:13:52 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
> > >> >> And last, can any patch that ends in .patch be applied to the
> > >> >> intended ebuild or does the gentoo ebuild auther have to put some
> > >> >> special code into an (EAPI-5) ebuild to facilitate user patches?
> > >> > 
> > >> > AFAIR the ebuild simply has to call epatch_user() in src_unpack()
> > >> > and any matching patches in /etc/portage/patches are applied.
> > >> 
> > >> The usual place is src_prepare().
> > >> 
> > >> I have prepared some patches from the Xfce repository with line
> > >> addressing to match the Gentoo sources tarball.  I attach a tarball of
> > >> theses patches that can be untarred in /etc/portage/patches/.
> > > 
> > > I have unpacked your patches to /etc/portage/patches as described here:
> > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches
> > > and then run # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin
> > > 
> > > After restarting xfce4, the weather-plugin started to work. Thank you.
> > > 
> > > Nevertheless, just
> > > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask
> > > world instead of # emerge xfce4-weather-plugin
> > > did not worked.
> > > 
> > >> The ebuild should have the following lines added:
> > >> 
> > >> src_prepare() {
> > >> 
> > >>         epatch_user
> > >> 
> > >> }
> > > 
> > > I have not done this relying on the promise by  Greg Kubaryk
> > > that the ebuild is epatch_user enabled.
> > > 
> > >> Don't forget to redo the manifest for the ebuild.
> > > 
> > > I never dealt with ebuilds on a maintaner level.
> > > So, may I ask if it is really necessary and for which purpose.
> > 
> > Just after emerging xfce4-weather-plugin with the patches
> > provided by David W Noon, I have noticed that I lost all my
> > alternative keyboard layouts.
> > 
> > I tried to set them anew via xfce4 Keyboard Layouts Plugin
> > version 0.5.6 but there is no keyboard layout that suits my
> > keyboard.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, unmerging xfce4-weather-plugin did not help.
> > 
> > Another thing I did just before re-emerging xfce4-weather-plugin
> > was a routine system update. This time only net-dns/libidn package
> > was updated from version 1.28 to version 1.29, and before that
> > update my alternative keyboard layouts were still present, as
> > I remember using them just after the update but before rebooting
> > the system.
> > 
> > So, it also may be that updating libidn package caused the damage.
> > 
> > I remember that, while installing Gentoo about 15 months ago,
> > I set my keyboard layout not via an xfce4 plugin but somewhere
> > in the X11 settings. (At that time I had gnome2 instead of xfce4 anyway).
> > 
> > So, may be now, re-emerging xfce4-weather-plugin, or trying
> > to set the alternative keyboard layout anew, I have created some
> > xfce4 configuration file that shadows X11 (or old gnome2) settings
> > that xfce4 used for keyboard layout previously.
> > 
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> I think you are referring to the XkbLayout.  In /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-
> evdev.conf you can add a section like so with the keyboard languages of your 
> choice:
> 
> 
> Section "InputClass"
>         Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
>         MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>         MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>         Driver "evdev"
>         Option "XkbLayout" "gb,el"
>         Option "XkbOptions" 
> "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> EndSection

Yes, something like that. But I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory.
So, I did that configuration in another file.

But the problem is that I have not changed anything related to the keyboard
layout just before my alternative keyboard layouts disappeared.