Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs

[Jon TURNEY]

Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Andreas Eibach wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs & from the command
>> line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF?
>> Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore.
>>
>> Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as
>> expected.
> 
> Are you saying the the keymap for all X windows is changed while xemacs 
> is running? Or does it only affect the Xemacs window?
> 
> Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde 
> character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working 
> anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes?

Ok, it seems I can reproduce this by telling Windows I have a german keyboard 
(although starting the X server with '-xkblayout de' doesn't seem to be 
sufficient, which is somewhat mysterious) and it only affects the xemacs window.

Andreas Eibach wrote:
 > Anyway to fix this?

A workaround seems to be to do 'setxkbmap de' before starting xemacs.

This and other reported problems make me thing something not quite right about 
  the way we are initializing XKB for an autodetected keyboard layout 
(probably related to MPX changes in the X server), which needs more 
investigation....


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