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metacity package

  1. Bug #289918
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 289918

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Alex (alex-nanogherkin) wrote : Re: [Bug 289918] Re: Regression: Connecting to FreeNX breaks keyboard layout in Intrepid

I agree that this is a bug on the client, eg Ubuntu 8.10 - why should I
be forced to upgrade *all* my server systems (which don't run Ubuntu of
any flavour) just because I upgraded my client OS - note "OS" - not
client software.

Alex

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:15 +0000, Martin Emrich wrote:
> Fixing or working-around this problem for every service does not really
> feel very satisfactory. I just upgraded NX Free on server and client,
> and after a quick test it seems to work. But I still sometimes (not
> always) have to do "setxkbmap -model evdev -layout de" on my laptop to
> make the keyboard work correctly.
>
> Does anybody know what causes these problems? It is obviously the same
> keys (mostly cursor keys) for very many people with many different
> keyboards.
>