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backi · Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 1455 Location: GERMANY

Hi watchdog !

I have to agree ..... there is something with my german keyboard .. does not work as usual but only (for me )in Chromium20 Browser....
. did some changes in countrysettings of the browser..now is working........almost .........still @ is now on another button.

Maybe one have to download and install specific langpack .

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OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1726 Location: London, England

The easiest way I have found to reproduce the keyboard layout bug is:-

Restart X Server
Open Geany
Type characters such as @ " # \

Perhaps other UK users at least would be so kind as to try this simple test.

anikin · Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 982

OscarTalks,
awhile ago, I had some keyboard misbehaviour too, with at least two puppies, although it wasn't severe. I created "90-keyboard-layout.conf" like this:

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 30 Jul 2013, 10:25 Post subject:

cygnus_odile · Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Posts: 6 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Hellow, everyone, and Thanks to Mr Barry K. for your Puppy.
I've been using "Puppy" for long time (about 4yeras), and mainly Japanese edition.

In Recent Precise Puppy's "/root/.Xdefaults" has an unexpected space at the end of line 8.

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 30 Jul 2013, 10:43 Post subject:

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1726 Location: London, England

Hello Terryphi,

Thanks for taking a look. The bug still persists for me. What happens is that if you open Geany (or can be Leafpad or other program that you would type into), type something, then close it, once you open it a second time (or any other program) the layout problem has gone away. This may be why it appeared that it was only in Geany and not other programs.

If you restart X again (or reboot) then open any program the problem will be there again until you try to type and then close it.

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 30 Jul 2013, 12:01 Post subject:

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB

Geany/Keboard/5.7/Full.
Interesting - it's more of a feature than a fault. I have an illuminated bni keyboard that I use for general testing. I used a marker pen to overwrite the @ " # \ symbols which were transposed " @ £ plus extra key for \|~, respectively. The bni compliance notice refers to Canada alone; I don't know anything else about it's origins.
I swapped this k/b with a regular UK one and the installation crashed. Rebooted, it made some changes and I rebooted again. Ignore X error message, got Error in /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/Puppy/Pin, go OK, old pinboard converted to new XML format OK gives single SDA1 icon lower left, CNTRL-Backspce + xwin - SDA1 and FD0, no other icons???? Everything appears to work from Menu, correct UK symbols for @"#\ appear as per (UK) keyboard.
Swap back to illuminated k/b, Geany, symbols revert to (Canadian?) keys as originally marked, but the desktop icons have disappeared again, just the HD and FD ones showing, not even the optical drive (IDE). Fiddled around with various icon handling utilities but nothing would bring them back.
Reinstalled FULL, availed of patch in PPM, set xv in Mplayer - all back as was with (Canadian?) key strokes in Geany.
All this is beyond my ambit. Just one mission critical matter - cannot get the £ symbol to show in Geany but UK regular key positions (overwritten on illuminated keyboard) in Abiword.
Having these issues? Try changing the keyboard?

Terryphi · Posted: Tue 30 Jul 2013, 12:17 Post subject:

Seems to me Restart X server is resetting to default US keyboard layout but corrects itself to selected keyboard layout after any program receives keyboard input and is closed. Weird!

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB

Weird, indeed. In principle, all the keys can be re-mapped - I used to do it with that other OS. That was a long time ago; no idea how to do it in Linux. It may also be possible to obtain stick-on key logos or overlay cards although I've not seen them recently. Sometimes, new keyboards come with a spare/blank key. Got to be easier solutions, especially as keyboards can be had new for £2-3 rather than the IBM monstrosity at ~£120 some decades ago. How about the euro symbol? The £ symbol might come in useful...

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1120 Location: Vienna Austria

Oscar Talks wrote:

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1726 Location: London, England

Well I have just looked at Precise Puppy 5.6.1 on 2 computers, one netbook and now posting from an HP Compaq Small Form Factor desktop and the bug does NOT happen for me in 5.6.1 so it would appear to be something which has crept in between 5.6.1 and 5.7 so hopefully that narrows it down a bit.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB

witekjeden · Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 41

I run live-cd retro version on my Maxdata Eco4010iw 512ram and system works quite good, thanks for new Precise. There is a little problem: can not to execute PeasyGlue and Pidgin with polish language. I guess the nls packages are not including into iso file because after installing pidgin_nls from Wary repo Pidgin works in polish.
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Oooops, sorry. The langpack needs to upgrade.