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Seth Berman

Ubuntu 11.04 keyboard workaround

Hi all,

Maybe everyone has figured this out already and I missed it, but just in case, here is the what I did to restore keyboard functionality.

This seems to be a reported bug in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libx11/+bug/745585

I'm attaching the missing XKeysymDB file which was pulled from Ubuntu 10.10.

1. Grab the attached XKeysymDB.tar.gz

2. tar zxf XKeysymDB.tar.gz

3. sudo chmod root:root XKeysymDB && sudo chmod 644 XKeysymDB

4. sudo mv XKeysymDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 (this is symlinked to /usr/share/X11, which isn't the case on my older version)

Vast should be able to may the keysym mappings now.

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John O'Keefe-3

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 keyboard workaround

The command in line 3 should be:

sudo chown root:root XKeysymDB && sudo chmod 644 XKeysymDB

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Seth Berman

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 keyboard workaround

I hate when I do that...

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:45 AM, John O'Keefe <[hidden email]> wrote:

The command in line 3 should be:

sudo chown root:root XKeysymDB && sudo chmod 644 XKeysymDB

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John O'Keefe-3

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 keyboard workaround

It looks like this is going to be a common issue going forward -- the file is missing from the Fedora 16 (and maybe earlier) distro anslo.

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Seth Berman

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 keyboard workaround

If I'm reading this right, we may need to switch XLIB calls to get the keysym

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libx11/+bug/745585

Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2011-06-09:

So I looked up XStringToKeysym and see it's an Xlib call

http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/keyboard/XStringToKeysym.html

Does this make any sense to you...I can look into it

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:51 AM, John O'Keefe <[hidden email]> wrote:

It looks like this is going to be a common issue going forward -- the file is missing from the Fedora 16 (and maybe earlier) distro anslo.
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Seth Berman

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 keyboard workaround

John,

No, switching calls doesn't look right. It seems others have a similar problem now and are having to do what we do, which is to provide instructions on how to replace /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB. Based on the commit that was made by that guy, it looks like it won't be coming back.

Seth

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Seth Berman <[hidden email]> wrote:

If I'm reading this right, we may need to switch XLIB calls to get the keysym

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libx11/+bug/745585
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2011-06-09:

So I looked up XStringToKeysym and see it's an Xlib call
http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/keyboard/XStringToKeysym.html

Does this make any sense to you...I can look into it

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:51 AM, John O'Keefe <[hidden email]> wrote:

It looks like this is going to be a common issue going forward -- the file is missing from the Fedora 16 (and maybe earlier) distro anslo.
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