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?
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Beartooth TpBkR wrote:
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
I had that on an install created from a Fedora 11 beta live CD. In the end I got rid of it by renaming .gconf and letting it create a fresh .gconf (as it was a test install I didn't care what other settings I lost).
Michael Young
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:10:25 +0100, M A Young wrote:
[....]
I had that on an install created from a Fedora 11 beta live CD. In the end I got rid of it by renaming .gconf and letting it create a fresh .gconf (as it was a test install I didn't care what other settings I lost).
It's probably a Very Dumb Question, but which gconf? Where?
Hello,
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth TpBkR beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:10:25 +0100, M A Young wrote:
[....]
I had that on an install created from a Fedora 11 beta live CD. In the end I got rid of it by renaming .gconf and letting it create a fresh .gconf (as it was a test install I didn't care what other settings I lost).
It's probably a Very Dumb Question, but which gconf? Where?
I get the same thing, see below for the record. Did you solve it by removing your $HOME/.gconf directory?
Right after logging in my GNOME session, I get this:
****************************************************** 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 10603000
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 ******************************************************
Here is the requested information:
$ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "intl", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", ""
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd layouts = [us-acentos,us intl] options = [grp grp:shift_caps_toggle,terminate terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp] model = latitude
I notice that dead keys don't work anymore, whatever using the "us-acentos" layout imported from the upgrade to F11 (strange, it is the first time I see such layout name in X11, us-acentos is the name in TTY) or a new layout "USA international (with dead keys)" set up using GNOME keyboard prefs.
The us-acentos layout works fine in TTY, my xorg.conf is set up for a US intl keyboard:
Section "InputDevice" # keyboard added by rhpxl Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbVariant" "intl" EndSection
This is a Fedora 11 (just upgraded by yum from Fedora 10), running on a Dell Latitude E6500. The same hardware/config was running fine in Fedora 10.
Regards,
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Beartooth -
M A Young -
wwp