[gentoo-user] Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world

[gentoo-user] Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world

[Henk Boom]

Hi, I did an update last week-end after not doing one since the spring
(I know, naughty me >_>). Aside from the really horrible libexpat
update which took me most of the weekend to fix, I'm having some
behaviour issues now, with which I would greatly appreciate help in
fixing.

First, my alt key seems not to work properly. It works fine in regular
programs (e.g. alt-f in firefox pulls down the file menu properly),
but not for wm or X-related things. For example, I can no longer use
ctrl-alt-fx to change to a VT from with X. Control-alt-backspace
_does_ work, and I can switch to a VT if I do it quick before before
it finishes restarting, at which point the shortcut works fine until I
get back into the X display. With my wm (xfwm), the keyboard shortcut
settings program will detect the alt key fine when I'm setting
shortcuts, but any shortcut involving alt will not work when I
actually try to use it. The normal alt-drag to move windows and such
doesn't work either.

The second problem is that all of my fonts in X are suddenly a couple
sizes too big. If I run "xrandr --dpi 75" the font sizes go back to
normal in programs I start afterward.

I followed the dpi guide on gentoo-wiki, but no DisplaySize setting in
my xorg.conf seems to make a difference. I see the following in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log when I try setting DisplaySize to 346 260:

...
(**) intel(0): Display dimensions: (346, 260) mm
(**) intel(0): DPI set to (75, 100)
...
(II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 x 203
...

This suggests to me that my settings are getting overruled somehow. I
am using x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.1.0 with x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2.

Any advice would be appreciated.

    Henk Boom
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world

[Roman Zilka]

> First, my alt key seems not to work properly. It works fine in regular
> programs (e.g. alt-f in firefox pulls down the file menu properly),
> but not for wm or X-related things. For example, I can no longer use
> ctrl-alt-fx to change to a VT from with X. Control-alt-backspace
> _does_ work, and I can switch to a VT if I do it quick before before
> it finishes restarting, at which point the shortcut works fine until I
> get back into the X display. With my wm (xfwm), the keyboard shortcut
> settings program will detect the alt key fine when I'm setting
> shortcuts, but any shortcut involving alt will not work when I
> actually try to use it. The normal alt-drag to move windows and such
> doesn't work either.

This is caused by the new xkeyboard-config. Downgrading should help. The
bug has been already filed through both Gentoo and freedesktop.org
bugzillas.

Regards
-Roman Zilka
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world

[Henk Boom]

On 11/10/2007, Roman Zilka <rzilka@gvid.cz> wrote:
> This is caused by the new xkeyboard-config. Downgrading should help. The
> bug has been already filed through both Gentoo and freedesktop.org
> bugzillas.

Thanks! Downgrading to version 0.8 fixed the alt key problem. I had
tried googling for the problem before asking here, but the results
were pretty much all noise, since it seems that many people have
miscellaneous problems related to the alt/meta keys.

Now all I have to worry about is the fonts =).

    Henk Boom
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world

[Peter Alfredsen]

On Thursday 11 October 2007, Henk Boom wrote:

> First, my alt key seems not to work properly. It works fine in regular
> programs (e.g. alt-f in firefox pulls down the file menu properly),
> but not for wm or X-related things. For example, I can no longer use
> ctrl-alt-fx to change to a VT from with X.

Just FYI, I had the same problem. For inexplicable reasons, it disappeared 
when I configured the keyboard layout ONLY through xorg.conf, disabling all 
keyboard layout functionality in KDE Control Center. For some reason, 
CTRL+ALT+Fn only displayed the letter V when I pressed them in Konsole.

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