Can someone tell me what the relationship is between gnome-keyboard-applet, gnome-keyboard-properties and gnome-keyboard-layout? as far as i can tell gnome-keybaord-layout has a completely differnent idea of installed layouts than gnome-keyboard-applet/gnome-keyboard-properties....
Rob On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:09:18 +0200, "Johannes Rohr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Keir Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > after upgrading to gnome 2.6 (experimental), whenever i start gnome an > > error message comes up saying: > > > > Error activating XKB configuration. > > Probably internal X server problem. > > > > X server version data: > > The XFree86 Project, Inc > > 40300001 > > You are using XFree 4.3.0. > > There are known problems with complex XKB configurations. > > Try using simpler configuration or taking more fresh version of XFree > > software. > > [...] > > You should have a look at your session (launch > gnome-session-properties). If you find something like 'gswitchit' or > 'gnome-keyboard-layout' or whatever it is called today, running, > remove it from your session. The GSwitchit developers say that XFree > 4.3.0 is to blame and that later releases of XFree 4.3 have been > fixed. Can't confirm as nothing newer than 4.3.0 is in Debian. > > If you need multiple keyboard layouts, configure them in > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 instead. I for my part need German and Russian > layouts and these two lines in the InputDevice section do what I want: > > Option "XkbLayout" "de,ru" > Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shift_toggle" > > This works just fine. For the non-technical users it would be fine, > however, if GSwitchit would finally be fixed. It is a shiny, desktoppy > tool. But at present it just doesn't work. For me at least. > > Thanks, > > Johannes > > -- > ~/.signature under construction > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
