Xephyr keyboard layout broken since Karmic upgrade

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

Since upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic Xephyr is no longer using the right keyboard layout (trivial stuff such as the arrow keys do not work) both when invoked with or without the "-kb" / "+kb" command-line option.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 1 20:57:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/Xephyr
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xserver-xephyr 2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: xorg-server
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[kapetr (kapetr)]

I can confirm that.

Especially without cursor keys it is in practice unusable.

I don't know, if the Problem is only in Karmic and not in previous releases, but in Karmic YES.

--kapetr

[Sergey Ukustov (ukstv)]

Try to use -keybd ephyr,,xkbmodel=evdev as recommended on http://readlist.com/lists/lists.freedesktop.org/xorg/7/36563.html

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi Thilo-Alexander,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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[Renato Riolino (renatoriolino)]

I can confirm that this bug is still present in Lucid amd64 and that -keybd ephyr,,xkbmodel=evdev didn't helped. BTW, the same bug affects Xnest too.

Another information, I`m from Brazil so I`m not using EUA keyboard layout.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[Resetting to incomplete since we need a response from the original reporter on this].

[harald (harald-net)]

Affects me too, this fixes it for me:
> DISPLAY=$EPHYR_DISPLAY setxkbmap -model evdev us

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel (thilo.ginkel)]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:47, Bryce Harrington
<email address hidden> wrote:
> [Resetting to incomplete since we need a response from the original
> reporter on this].

I will have a look as soon as I find some time and get my KDE build
environment running again.

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel (thilo.ginkel)]

Got it working using:

Xephyr :1 -screen 1024x768 -keybd ephyr,,,xkbmodel=evdev

[autostatic (autostatic)]

Using -keybd ephyr,,,xkbmodel=evdev did work with Karmic but with Lucid it doesn't fully work. When I press arrow up I get the Save Screenshot window for example.

[autostatic (autostatic)]

Hmmm, after a reboot it _does_ work. My bad, sorry :)

[Marcus (marcus-liljedahl)]

I have the same problem using 10.10 amd64

The following lines solves my problem:

Xephyr :1 -noreset &
sleep 1
xkbcomp :0 :1
DISPLAY=:1 ssh -X user@localhost gnome-session