One one machine, I keep getting half a dozen popups that all say :
Error activating XKB configuration. It can happen under various circumstances: - a bug in libxklavier library - a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities) - X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
X server version data: The X.Org Foundation 10601901
If you report this situation as a bug, please include: - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
It doesn't say *where* to send a bug report. So I ran those commands, and got :
[btth@Hbsk ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105+inet", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" [btth@Hbsk ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd layouts = [] options = [] model = [btth@Hbsk ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd layouts = [] options = [] model = [btth@Hbsk ~]$
None of that means anything to me.
I tried yum remove xkb, meaning to follow it with yum install xkb, but yum didn't find it.
I tried googling, and I tried yum whatprovides. That got me to / usr/share/X11/xkb -- but everything in the readmes is Geek to me.
When I was working, all of us in my section had lots of what we then called macros such as type Ctrl-b, and the machine would put "Includes bibliographical references" into the proper field. What little I can follow seems to say that such tricks are what XKB does; but I don't use them now, and haven't since I retired.
Should I just remove XKB? If so, how? If not that, what?