Re: [kde] keyboard layout being changed for KDE applications only (and a list question)

2016-01-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Forgot to mention:

This is on KUbuntu 14.04.3 LTS, running very recent rebuilds of KDELibs, 
KDE-Runtime, KDE-BaseApps and certain others, using the Trusty packaging 
scripts (cf. ppa:rjvbertin/kde-git). I've been running such builds for over a 
year now without ill effects, so it shouldn't be causing this new behaviour 
unless something related to kxkb (kxkbd?) changed in a very recent commit to 
kdelibs.

Help?

R.
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Re: [kde] keyboard layout being changed for KDE applications only (and a list question)

2016-01-11 Thread Kevin Krammer
Hi,

On Monday, 2016-01-11, 11:46:56, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> As to the list question: is this list archived on gmane and if so, under
> what name?

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.general

Cheers,
Kevin

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KDE user support, developer mentoring


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[kde] keyboard layout being changed for KDE applications only (and a list question)

2016-01-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi,

I have a question about undesirable keyboard layout behaviour under KDE4, and 
one about this list itself.

I have a regular need to write French text, if not only because there's an 
e-acute in my name. As a long-term Mac user, the "US (Macintosh)" layout is the 
most natural layout for me. It turns provides logical deadkey combinations 
where the AltGr key is a required modifier.
For instance, AltGr+e is the deadkey for the acute accent; AltGr+e,e becomes an 
e-acute, AltGr+`,a becomes an a-grave and so on.

This has always worked, still worked for my 1st email this morning, and now 
it's the second time that the deadkeys have gone "live" in the sense that 
AltGr+e immediately gives me a lonely acute accent. 
Testing the most important combinations that ought to be deadkeys, without 
entering the "release" key corresponding to the character that ought to receive 
the accent:
(AltGr+e AltGr+` AltGr+u AltGr+i AltGr+n) -> (´ ` ¨ ^ ~)
It's like my spacebar is stuck, except that it isn't ...

The keyboard layout is still the correct one in SystemSettings (and 
~/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc), and cycling it to and from another layout doesn't 
resolve the issue.
Curiously, only KDE4 applications are affected. My GTk/Gnome applications still 
use the correct layout (including Google Chrome), and so do the KF5 
applications I'm building and installing into /opt/local .

Any idea what causes this, and how to resolve it other than by logging off and 
back in or even rebooting? Is there a KDE daemon that is responsible for this 
and that should be restarted (restarting kglobalaccel doesn't solve anything)?

As to the list question: is this list archived on gmane and if so, under what 
name?

Thanks,
Ren´e (g)
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Re: [kde] keyboard layout being changed for KDE applications only (and a list question)

2016-01-11 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Kevin Krammer wrote:

> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.general

That was the easy part (so easy I could have guessed...).

As I suspected, logging off and back in solved my issue, but I'd hope a better 
workaround exists.

é à ü î ñ ... yay :)

I've seen vague references to a kxkbd daemon, but can't find it (and have no 
such 
thing running even now).

Mysteries ...

Cheers
René

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