Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs

[Jon TURNEY]

Andreas Eibach wrote:
>> Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> (In case that it went down the drain: One is enough,: ~ = -> $HOME :)
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Great! Thanks for still bearing with me.
> 
>> 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....

This behaviour should be fixed in xorg-server 1.5.3-5.  Feedback welcomed.


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