On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:29:19PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Hetz Ben Hamo, from the post of Sun, 15 Feb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il
> >
>
> $ setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
This is generally harmless. Googling for it would mislead you.
> Use defaults: rules - 'xfree86' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
> free(): invalid pointer 0xbffffb60!
> Error loading new keyboard description
Sounds like a bug in either setxkbmap or xkbcomp .
setxkbmap calls the server to construct a .xkb map-file and then run
xkbcomp to compile and load it to the server. Errors can thus come from
either setxkbmap or from xkbmap on the server side.
The property _XKB_RULES_NAMES of the root window remembers the current
map settings. It is set by the X server when it initially creates the
map and also every time you run setxkbmap . If it wasn't set I believe
that creating the initial map by the X server failed the same way.
To get more information:
Is there anything in that property:
xprop -root |grep _XKB_RULES_NAMES
Increase verbosity of setxkbmap:
setxkbmap -v 10 <rest of command-line>
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