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* [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost
@ 2014-10-18  8:34 gevisz
  2014-10-18  9:12 ` Mick
  2014-10-18 10:10 ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: gevisz @ 2014-10-18  8:34 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

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:
>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> 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?


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* Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-18  8:34 [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost gevisz
@ 2014-10-18  9:12 ` Mick
  2014-10-18  9:23   ` Gevisz
  2014-10-18 10:10 ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2014-10-18  9:12 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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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:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >> 
> >> 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


-- 
Regards,
Mick

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* Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-18  9:12 ` Mick
@ 2014-10-18  9:23   ` Gevisz
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Gevisz @ 2014-10-18  9:23 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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:
> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > >> Hash: SHA1
> > >> 
> > >> 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.
 



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* [gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-18  8:34 [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost gevisz
  2014-10-18  9:12 ` Mick
@ 2014-10-18 10:10 ` gevisz
  2014-10-18 18:04   ` Gevisz
  2014-10-19 10:28   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: gevisz @ 2014-10-18 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2014-10-18 11:34 GMT+03:00 gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
> 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:
>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> 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 have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:
only one extra unnecessary letter "ӕ" in place of "э" and the letter
"э" is set in another easy to remember position.

But everything worked perfect before emerging xfce4-weather-plugin
with patches and libidn!


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* [gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-18 10:10 ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
@ 2014-10-18 18:04   ` Gevisz
  2014-10-18 21:08     ` Matti Nykyri
  2014-10-19 10:28   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Gevisz @ 2014-10-18 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:10:15 +0300
gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
> reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
> alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
> keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
> alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:
> only one extra unnecessary letter "ӕ" in place of "э" and the letter
> "э" is set in another easy to remember position.

Oh, no. I was wrong! Because, in the Osetinian Winkeys
keyboard layout, I cannot find letter "ё".

And this issue significantly slows down my work! 
 
> But everything worked perfect before emerging xfce4-weather-plugin
> with patches and libidn!



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-18 18:04   ` Gevisz
@ 2014-10-18 21:08     ` Matti Nykyri
  2014-10-19 14:24       ` gevisz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Matti Nykyri @ 2014-10-18 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

> On Oct 18, 2014, at 21:04, Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:10:15 +0300
> gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
>> reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
>> alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
>> keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
>> alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:
>> only one extra unnecessary letter "ӕ" in place of "э" and the letter
>> "э" is set in another easy to remember position.
> 
> Oh, no. I was wrong! Because, in the Osetinian Winkeys
> keyboard layout, I cannot find letter "ё".
> 
> And this issue significantly slows down my work! 
> 
>> But everything worked perfect before emerging xfce4-weather-plugin
>> with patches and libidn!

Well you should configure keyboard layouts through evdev. If you update xorg-server you will need to remerge x11-drivers.

So configure evdev as suggested by previous emails and then remerge x11-drivers.

-- 
-M

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* Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-18 10:10 ` [gentoo-user] " gevisz
  2014-10-18 18:04   ` Gevisz
@ 2014-10-19 10:28   ` Stroller
  2014-10-19 14:08     ` Gevisz
  2014-10-19 15:46     ` Gevisz
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Stroller @ 2014-10-19 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user


On Sat, 18 October 2014, at 11:10 am, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> … 
> I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
> reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
> alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
> keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
> alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:

Could you possibly post your /etc/locale.gen please?

Stroller.



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* Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-19 10:28   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
@ 2014-10-19 14:08     ` Gevisz
  2014-10-19 15:46     ` Gevisz
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Gevisz @ 2014-10-19 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 11:28:00 +0100
Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 18 October 2014, at 11:10 am, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > … 
> > I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
> > reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
> > alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
> > keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
> > alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:
> 
> Could you possibly post your /etc/locale.gen please?

Excluding comments, it is like this:

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R
ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_RU ISO-8859-5
ru_UA.UTF-8 UTF-8
ru_UA KOI8-U
uk_UA.UTF-8 UTF-8
uk_UA KOI8-U

I have not changed this file since installation of Gentoo
about 15 months ago.

Yet a few days ago I had no problem with my Russian keyboard
layout and still have no problem with my Ukrainian keyboard
layout.


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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-18 21:08     ` Matti Nykyri
@ 2014-10-19 14:24       ` gevisz
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: gevisz @ 2014-10-19 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2014-10-19 0:08 GMT+03:00 Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@iki.fi>:
>> On Oct 18, 2014, at 21:04, Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:10:15 +0300
>> gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
>>> reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
>>> alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
>>> keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
>>> alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:
>>> only one extra unnecessary letter "ӕ" in place of "э" and the letter
>>> "э" is set in another easy to remember position.
>>>
>
> Well you should configure keyboard layouts through evdev.
> If you update xorg-server you will need to remerge x11-drivers.
>
> So configure evdev as suggested by previous emails and then remerge x11-drivers.

First of all, I cannot see why I should recompile something after
changing configuration files.

Second of all :), there is no ebuild named x11-drivers. If you meant
xorg-drivers,
I have recompiled them with no effect.


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* Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative keyboard layout is lost
  2014-10-19 10:28   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
  2014-10-19 14:08     ` Gevisz
@ 2014-10-19 15:46     ` Gevisz
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Gevisz @ 2014-10-19 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user


> > I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
> > reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
> > alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
> > keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
> > alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:

The problem has been solved by
1) unmerging buggy xfce4-xkb-plugin
2) deleting its .rc file somewhere in ~/.config directory
3) emerging buggy xfce4-xkb-plugin back

I think it is a bug as it is impossible to chose ru(winkeys)
keyboard layout from xfce4-xkb-plugin interface.  



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