Up arrow key mapped to Print [screen]

[Matt Zimmerman]

On current Intrepid, when I press the Up arrow on my keyboard, the GNOME screenshot dialog comes up. I usually notice this when I'm navigating in a text dialog (like the one I'm typing into now) and have pressed Up several times (triggering a sequence of screenshot windows which take several seconds to appear).

<mdz> my up arrow key is now a shortcut for print screen
<ogra_cmpc> how handy
<tjaalton> mdz: change the kb model to evdev
<mdz> it is actually extremely inconvenient, because it is a key I tend to press several times before I realize what is happening
<tjaalton> that should be forced though
<mdz> tjaalton: thanks...is there a more permanent and automatic fix on the way?
<mdz> tjaalton: my xorg.conf is entirely autogenerated
<tjaalton> mdz: yes, it should be forced always
<mdz> tjaalton: setxkbmap -model evdev didn't fix it
<tjaalton> mdz: as evdev, because gnome is borked
<mdz> tjaalton: is there a bug number for this?
<tjaalton> hm, maybe I need to test the latest fedora patches for real..
<tjaalton> mdz: nope
<tjaalton> not that I know of anyway
<mdz> tjaalton: on which package should I file it?
<tjaalton> mdz: xorg-server

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 5 15:56:42 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xserver-xorg 1:7.4~0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/surfraw
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic i686

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

18:41 < tjaalton> hm, shouldn't the kb model be forced to evdev when i-h is used?
18:45 < daniels> tjaalton: it is
18:45 < daniels> well, the xkb model is forced to evdev by the evdev driver
18:46 < daniels> gnome, however, wants to compile keymaps on the client side and then send
                 them to the server
18:46 < tjaalton> yes, that's what I'm seeing..
18:46 < daniels> right
18:46 < tjaalton> and the fedora patches don't seem to help :)
18:46 < tjaalton> whot: ^^
18:46 < daniels> yeah, xkb needs fixing there

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

so the workaround is to use the gnome keyboard capplet and change the model as "generic - evdev", until a permanent solution is in place.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:04:16PM -0000, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> so the workaround is to use the gnome keyboard capplet and change the
> model as "generic - evdev", until a permanent solution is in place.

That doesn't fix it for me.

--
 - mdz

[Hew (hew)]

I get this issue as well with my Logitech G15 keyboard. My left/right/down keys don't work either, but don't seem to be mapped to some extra function. The insert/delete/home/end/page_up/page_down keys are also dead/remapped. Happened with the last batch of updates, so I suspect it was caused in this latest xorg:

xserver-xorg-core/intrepid uptodate 2:1.4.99.906-1ubuntu1

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Matt: what layout do you use? There are patches in Fedora which allow changing the layout, but the model should always be evdev, and that should be forced in gnome.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 05:21:42AM -0000, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> Matt: what layout do you use? There are patches in Fedora which allow
> changing the layout, but the model should always be evdev, and that
> should be forced in gnome.

I use layout "us", variant "dvorak".

--
 - mdz

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Actually, no...on my desktop, my keyboard maps dvorak in hardware, so I use layout "us" with no variant:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

My laptop (which I haven't upgraded yet for fear of this bug) uses variant "dvorak".

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

For comparison, I independently discovered 'setxkbmap -model evdev -layout gb -option lv3:ralt_switch' upon encountering this bug, and it worked fine for me.

I do hope somebody has made sure that the special cases (abnt2 and jp106 for Brazilian and Japanese keymaps) continue to work. :-)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

does this fit the description:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16364

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I confirmed this bug on my laptop, using the dvorak variant:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "us"
 Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
 Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

However, this time, I was able to fix it with:

setxkbmap -model evdev -layout us -variant dvorak

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Matt, could you check that you have the latest hal installed on the broken machine. See bug 254939 where one guy had the same problem.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:01:16PM -0000, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> Matt, could you check that you have the latest hal installed on the
> broken machine. See bug 254939 where one guy had the same problem.

0.5.11-3~ubuntu5

--
 - mdz

[Hew (hew)]

I had bug 254939 before, but switching with ctrl+alt+F1 and sudo apt-get update/upgrade fixed that issue. I now have this different problem.

My earlier issue with the keys other than the up arrow have currently disappeared (during this session, without updating), but Ins and Del are still dead.

hal/intrepid uptodate 0.5.11-3~ubuntu5
xserver-xorg-core/intrepid uptodate 2:1.4.99.906-1ubuntu3
xserver-xorg-input-evdev/intrepid uptodate 1:2.0.3-2

[sojourner (itsmealso2)]

I also have this bug after intrepid updates of aug 5 ,2008 . gereric qwerty keyboard and US keymap .

[Tanath (tanath)]

This bug appears to be caused by imwheel. I suggest removing it if you have it.

[Hew (hew)]

I do not have imwheel installed and still have this issue.

Also, upon restarting today, the issue has gone back to affecting all ten keys. Page_up is mapped to / (as well as the / key itself), and page_down is mapped to something that brings up a context menu in the focussed window. As well as up_arrow being print_screen, these are the only three of the ten that seem to be mapped to something.

[Tanath (tanath)]

Hm, well I removed imwheel, which fixed a few things, and after logging out and back in, my up arrow is no longer mapped to prtscn. Have you tried resetting the keyboard in the Keyboard applet? System > Prefs > Keyboard > Layout > Reset. After that you may need to check your Keyboard Shortcuts applet.

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

I'm experiencing the same bug, and reseting the keyboard applet did nothing.

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

...and I don't have imwheel running.

[Tanath (tanath)]

Well, I still have a couple keyboard issues too, but something I did fixed the up arrow issue. Now my main problem is that holding the right Ctrl key causes it to rapidly repeat.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Please keep only one issue per bug. The ctrl repeating is known upstream and fixed in master. This OTOH should be fixed in the latest xserver-xorg-core, please make sure you have 1.4.99.906-1ubuntu3 installed.

And if you still have the original problem even when the keyboard model is evdev, attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log, thanks.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

..and the output of 'setxkbmap -print', and xorg.conf.

[whwi (whitewindow)]

hi
i have this problem too

ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4~0ubuntu2 the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.99.906-1ubuntu3 Xorg X server - core server

setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwertz)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+de(mac)+level3(ralt_switch_for_alts_toggle)+group(alts_toggle)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Here is setxkbmap -print for the system where I still experienced this
problem after setxkbmap -model evdev:

xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

--
 - mdz

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

whwi: you need to set the keyboard model as evdev.

[whwi (whitewindow)]

Timo Aaltonen same problem

setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+de(mac)+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_switch_for_alts_toggle)+group(alts_toggle)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };

[Hew (hew)]

"Reset to Defaults" (Evdev-managed keyboard) solved the problem for me (after a restart). Switching back to the layout I was using before, Logitech G15, causes the keys to go dead again.

[phenest (steve-clark)]

setxkbmap -print:
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+gb(dvorak)+inet(precision_m)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
        Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
EndSection

Using setxkbmap -model evdev -layout gb -variant dvorak fixes it. But how do I make this stick?

[phenest (steve-clark)]

Didn't read Hew's post. I used "Reset to Defaults" (Evdev-managed keyboard). Same results as Hew. I have a Dell Precision M90.

[Nick Colgan (nick-colgan)]

I experienced and subsequently filed the same bug (without realizing it was a duplicate, of course). The generic->evdev fixed did work for me as a temporary fix. More info and data here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/255608

[Nick Colgan (nick-colgan)]

CORRECTION: although switching to generic-evdev did fix the HOME,PGUP,PGDN,END, left arrow, down arrow, and arrow keys, my right arrow key is still not performing as expected. Pressing it switches one workspace to the left. The "Keyboard Shortcuts" preferences seem to bind the correct key sequence (Alt+CTRL+Right), so I don't know what is causing this problem. Again, I have more information listed at bug #255608.

Also, setxkbmap -print results:
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

Relevant xorg.conf info:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Attatched is my Xorg.0.log

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Nick, that's something new, please file another bug and tell what events xev shows with that key.

all those who still see this bug, please create a new user and test if you can reproduce the problem..

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

Sorry guys, rebooting after reseting my keyboard in the menu fixed my problem.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I never was able to fix this with setxkbmap, but after installing updates and rebooting, everything is OK

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

<phew> so it was some update missing from your system.. that's good news. Closing the bug.

[midnightflash (midnightflash)]

For me the solution was:

$ rm .gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/

and relogin.

After this it's running as expected.

[Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer)]

Hey,

On 23.10.2008 13:24, midnightflash wrote:
> For me the solution was:
>
> $ rm .gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/
>
Congrats :)

But please consider using
    gcontool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/

instead of removing the directory because gconf is a caching deamon and
unexpected bahaviour may occur if you delete the directory yourself.

Cheers

[SARO (saravanan-subbiah)]

Thanks Muelli,

That fixed the problem for me. Though the correct command is

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard

cheers

[krixm (kixm)]

Hi!
This solution doesn't work for me.

After using the command and logging in.

The System is asking me for a Xmodmap.

Also the evdev solution is not working for me.

Is there a fix or something else to do?

thx

[krixm (kixm)]

Got a solution.

First manually delete your old .Xmodmap Files in your Home-Directory.

then do a
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

to reconfigure your Keyboard.

After this perform

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard

and reboot.

So I hope you have no problems furtherlonger.

THX for your help

[Vojtech Vitek (V-Teq) (v-teq)]

This bug also affected my keyboard, but the only key that didn't work was LEFT ARROW (mapped to no action).
Changing the keyboard model to Evdev fixed this.

[TheFinePrint (rolmol)]

Judging by the remapping this appears to be the same issue that affects NX-sessions.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/289918

The difference here is that the keyboard works as expected with no ill effects *locally*, but broken when in an NX-session. I cannot find any .Xmodmap-files anywhere in my home directory or lower.

[PeteJ (pj08)]

I had a gutsy thinkpad t21 laptop nx client connecting to a gutsy plain wrap freenx server working fine. Upgraded to Intrepid this morning and got the broken nav key problem in the nx session (up arrow opened Take screenshot and the other nav keys were borken too).

After reading tons, having no clue, flailing around, on both client and server I did System, Preferences, Keyboard, Layouts, "Evdev-managed keyboard" or similar, and then in the nx session, on the server, I did System, Preference, Keyboard shortcuts, Desktop, Take a screenshot. It was "Print", I pressed "Ctrl+PrtSc", it changed to "Ctrl+Print", and now ALL the nav keys work fine.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Since I removed the keyboard config from my xorg.conf (to let X.Org decide automatically with HAL), I have to do "setxkbmap -model evdev -layout de -variant nodeadkeys" after every login :(

@PeteJ: For NX-Related problems, I found Bug #289918 (which affects me, too)

[Matthäus Brandl (matthaeus)]

Well, thanks Muelli, mv'ing .gconf helps me as well, but having to reconfigure everything is quite annoying. It would be great to find the responsible key...

[Matthäus Brandl (matthaeus)]

Actually I found the responsible key, at least in my case. It's the Compiz plugin ezoom (Enhanced Desktop Zoom) which I actually don't use anymore. I removed the key with gconftool-2 and almost everything works fine. (Well would be nice to have the menu key as compose, but I guess that's just some fdi configuration...

[Ciso (cisoprogressivo)]

I solved the problem changing my keyboard to Edev, but still reproducing this bug after some reboot. I really don't know why.

[Clément Léger (clem-vangelis)]

modifying my xorg.conf with my old informations from hardy solve the problem :

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
    Option "XkbVariant" "oss"
EndSection

[Clément Léger (clem-vangelis)]

Forget what i mention before , doesn't work instead of that just put :
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "evdev"
    Option "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
it will do the trick , anyway intrepid seems to be affected by a serious bug related to default keyboard driver...

[Jeremy Cantrell (jmcantrell)]

I'm curious about something before I start playing with my xorg.conf... my keyboard driver was "keyboard". What is the difference between it and "evdev" and "kbd"? What is the default in intrepid?

[frankie (frankie-etsetb)]

Hi. I tried everything listed in the comments before but I'm still unable to use some keys. Arrow down and Page UP
won't work. Thou arrow up and page down do.

I tried different things in xorg.conf: no keyboard entry, keyboad evdev and keyboard as it was with hardy. I didn't see a
different behaviour after restarting.

I made sure I don't have any imwheel package nore daemon. I also removed all compiz packages.

I also tried to run:
  setxkbmap -model evdev -layout es -option lv3:ralt_switch

and this:

  gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard

I blacklisted the evdev module but then I had no mouse nor keyboard, so I removed that entry there.

apt-cache policy xserver-xorgx server-xorg-input-evdev

xserver-xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.4~5ubuntu3 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
xserver-xorg-input-evdev:
  Installed: 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Currently xorg.conf entries for keyboard and mouse are commented.

$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+es(cat)+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_switch_for_alts_toggle)+group(alts_toggle)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

Any help would be appreciated, missing arrow down is hard for me.

[Nil (nicolas-limare)]

I have a japanese keyboard, panasonic Y5 laptop. The PgDown key doesn't work. Up-to-date intrepid packages.

* setting the keyboard model to evdev in the gnome configuration tool doesn't fix it.
* `sudo setxkbmap -model evdev -layout jp -variant 106` fixes the issue, but I guess I will have to do it after every reboot

The commented-out part of my xorg.conf is:
    #Section "InputDevice"
    # Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
    # Driver "kbd"
    # Option "CoreKeyboard"
    # Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    # Option "XkbModel" "jp106"
    # Option "XkbLayout" "jp"
    # Option "XkbVariant" "106,"
    #EndSection

[Harley Stenzel (harley)]

There's a report on this issue over on NoMachine's site:

http://www.nomachine.com/tr/view.php?id=TR11F02131

For me, this workaround is acceptable (it also disables evdev):

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

However, that report also incorrectly states that this issue is limited to intrepid to intrepid. I believe that it's seen on an intrepid NX client connecting to any other host. In my case, I see it with NX client connecting to a server running RHEL4.

[albinootje (albinootje)]

Weeks ago I ran into the same problem after starting to use Ubuntu Intrepid on my desktop.
I was using a FreeNX-server on CentOS 5.x, but by coincidence I was also testing a FreeNX-server with Ubuntu Intrepid.
In the Ubuntu FreeNX-server desktop I could change the keyboard to evdev, and on my own desktop too, and eventually it worked. (And I gave up the CentOS one, because there I could not fix it

But.. yesterday night I removed all of my dot gnome files and all other dot files for my user (except .profile and .bash* files) on the Intrepid FreeNX server to test OpenBox and ... the same keyboard problems happened

This page claims that there's a released fix :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/in...er/+bug/255008
but I didn't see any xorg updates for Intrepid, nor did the problem get fixed for my situation.
Am I missing something ?

[Jos Dehaes (jos-dehaes)]

Not fixed for me! If I connect from an intrepid client to a dapper nxserver, I get this problem. The printscreen key sends delete, arrow up sends print screen... How can I fix this?

[Harley Stenzel (harley)]

I also found that it helps to move up to most recent nx, if using the nomachine version. It seems that some keyboard mapping issues were fixed in recent updates.

[mabawsa (mabawsa)]

These commands fix the keyboard mapping for me. Please swap the -layout for your keyboard.

setxkbmap -model evdev -layout us
killall metacity

[Tyson Williams (bender2k14)]

This bug says that a fix is released (several times), but I still have this problem and have all updates installed.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Yes, I have it, too, I still have to run "setxkbmap -model evdev -layout de" after login.

[mabawsa (mabawsa)]

Did you try

killall metacity

?

[Tyson Williams (bender2k14)]

@mabawsa

I have the "us" layout and those two commands do not fix the problem for me. Also, there was no "metacity" running before executing the second command.

[mabawsa (mabawsa)]

@Bender2k14
Is this with an nx session? If so then this may help, if not I think its a different bug from what I have been seeing.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/289918/comments/26

[Tyson Williams (bender2k14)]

I am not in any remote session. I would be surprised if it were a different bug, but I do not know enough to make a stronger claim.

[Tyson Williams (bender2k14)]

Up (by itself) is still maps to PrintScreen fr me, but I realized today that both Ctrl-Up and Shift-Up work correctly (if that matters).

I have never consciously used Ctrl-Up before (normally Ctrl-Left and -Right jump the cursor over text), but it appears to be a workaround, at least in the context of text.

[Tyson Williams (bender2k14)]

I no long have this problem. I did try to do anything to fix it, and I did not notice any updates that would have fixed this bug for me.

[Peter Hagen (peter-willowmedia)]

I have the same problem with the arrow keys, but I'm trying to connect through an Ubuntu 8.10 server with freenx 0.7.3+svn612-0freenxteam11~intrepid1 to windows machines (vm's and real machines). I use the NX Java applet, but also when I try to connect from my Ubuntu 8.10 machine it won't work.

I also installed the NXServer from NoMachine on my workstation, and if I connect through that one to the win32 machines, and the keyboard does work correctly.

I also have a Debian server I can use to connect to the Win32 machines, which has the free NoMachine NXServer on it (with just 2 connections) and it has the same affect. Both servers are not configured to use X11. Might this have anything to do with it?

[sam.watkins (swatkins)]

To fix this bug, on the server type:

  apt-get install xkb-data

then type:

  setxkbmap

(or restart nx)

The file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg is the file that was needed.

This could be fixed with a dependency in one of the nx packages.

As of now, the problem still occurs with the latest nx packages for debian and ubuntu (3.3.0) because they do not depend on xkb-data.

[sam.watkins (swatkins)]

sorry I didn't realise this bug report was not specifically about nx.

[noamik (spam-noamik)]

Problem still present when upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 and even persists when upgrading further to 9.04.
It only affects existing users. When I create a new user, the keyboard is working as expected. However none of the above workarounds does fix all the issues for my existing user.
Best I can achieve is when setting keyboard to evdev after login to get any key working but the down cursor ...

Is there nobody who knows what I can do to get the keyboard settings of a new user to apply to my existing user?

[noamik (spam-noamik)]

I made and upgrade from ubuntu 8.04 to ubuntu 8.10 and experienced this very same problem. What ever has been done to fix the issue does only work for new installations and new users. The issue even persists when upgrading further to 9.04.
Proposed work arounds do not entirely fix the issue in all cases either ...

[noamik (spam-noamik)]

As a work around I could fix remaining issues by "deleting" any xmodmap-related file of the affected users and changing keyboard layout again. I still consider it a bug when an dist-upgrade breaks prior keyboard configuration. It may be of minor importance though ...

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

I've marked Bug #512622, filed myself, as duplcate of this bug. It is describing the "wiredness" mentioned in Bug #254939 which I also marked as duplcate. I'm aware it does so in a confusing manner.

Lucid Lynx is also affected.

In the essence my search which also led me here, ends up to following:

Introducing evdev managing keybords resulted in changing keymapping of the non ascii keys (guess!) in a non reasonable way. Did all that keyboards out there change the same? ;o))

At least this is incompatible to xmodmapfiles created for xfree86 driven keyboards.

from my point of view solution could be:

most elegant:
- make evdev output reasonble (i.e xfree86/xmodmap compatible, for all that
  keyboards out there already are ;o)) )

if evdev output is reasonable in any way (I don't believe):
- make xmodmap detect evdev driven keyboard and handle apropriately

or worse:
- kick xmodmap to avoid confusion

grml.org team (recent debian testing) solved that problem by managing the keybord by xfree86 and all the rest by evdev (don't know how, but it works as expected with my "old" xmodmap files)

Worst case in my opinion is to kick xmodmap, because we will loose "xkeycaps" - a great tool to manage complexity of keybord issues in a quit easy and portable manner.

I'm not really an expert, so maybe I'm lost completely with this.

Other conclusions ending in a working solution for this pain always apreciated. :o))

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

I think it is a good idea to make a decision how to handle this for lucid release.

Every LTS upgrader with a customized keyboardmapping will run in big trouble - every!

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrepid Ibex 8.10 reached EOL on 30 March 2010.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
Thank you.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

I realized I had made a mistake, Intrepid Ibex 8.10 "will reach" EOL on 30 "APRIL" 2010.

Sorry for this.

Anyway, I think that one month doesn't make any difference now.