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[JM <meets@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:44:43 -0200
Federico Leoni <effelle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2013/11/3 Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 2013-11-03 12:20, Federico Leoni wrote:
> >> Em 03/11/2013 00:08, "Andre Rodovalho" <andre.rodovalho@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> >>>
> >>> Do you have this problem on Lubuntu 13.04?
> >>>
> >>> I updated to 13.10 from 13.04... LxKeymap is still here, and also the lxpannel
> >>> widget... But I have no problems with this caracters. Maybe the language installed
> >>> makes difference, I installed with Portuguese-BR using US Keyboard with dead keys!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2013/11/2 Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2013-11-01 23:34, Federico Leoni wrote:
> >>>>> Before open a bug (if possible for a single layout) I would like to
> >>>>> see if anyone is suffering for the same issue.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For my work and for real life I write a lot in English, Italian and
> >>>>> Portuguese so on all my system desktop (Lubuntu 13.04), netbook and
> >>>>> notebook (Lubuntu 13.10), I set my keyboard to US alternative
> >>>>> international.
> >>>>> What I expect pressing the key " ' " followed by " c " from the
> >>>>> keyboard is  the special char " ç " (ALT code 135) but on 13.10 it
> >>>>> read it as a " ć ", when on 13.04 is working as expected.
> >>>>> I tried to configure it with the new keyboard layout Handler applet
> >>>>> and with the old-but-good Lxkeymap but Lubuntu simply seems to ignore
> >>>>> the existence of that char. The rest of the keyboard is working fine.
> >>>>> This char is really important for Portuguese so it's a big problerm
> >>>>> for me.
> >>>>> I can change the keyboard layout without troubles, so the issue seems
> >>>>> to be related to this specific layer.
> >>>>> I tried with a standard Ubuntu 13.04/13.10 live, same behavior.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I hope you will understand what I mean, if no one as any clues I'll open a bug.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> F.
> >>>>>
> >>>> I can confirm this behaviour also with Swedish keyboard
> >>>>
> >>>> Examples
> >>>>
> >>>> Acute accent + c  prints ç in 12.04.3 but ć in 13.10
> >>>> Acute accent + e  prints é in 12.04.3 and 13.10
> >>>>
> >>>> When I log in from a Lubuntu 13.10 client via ssh to a Xubuntu 12.04.3
> >>>> ssh server, I get the 13.10 behaviour, so it seems connected to the
> >>>> keyboard setting rather than interpreting the ascii code.
> >>>>
> >>>> So please file a bug report and post the bug number. I will add 'affects
> >>>> me too'.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>> Nio
> >>>>
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> >>
> >> André,
> >>
> >> thanks for making me ring a bell in my head.
> >> my desktop (running 13.04) is set to PT-BR, if I change language to US
> >> the keyboard start acting strange as on others PC.
> >>  Setting to PT-BR my netbook and notebook solved the problem but I
> >> need an English setup here. And have a keyboard that change behavior
> >> with the language is not the best.
> >>
> >> @Nio:
> >>
> >> could you gently try to set your system language to Swedish to see if
> >> the keyboard starts acting fine? I'll wait your reply then I'll update
> >> informations on Launchpad.
> >>
> >> F.
> >>
> >
> > To make something clean I installed from Lubuntu_13.10oct30.tar.xz,
> > selected Swedish at the OEM finishing screen, added Swedish language,
> > set it system-wide. and rebooted.
> >
> > The clock, pull down menus, letters in the terminal windows are Swedish,
> > for example åäö. but the issue with c is still there.
> >
> > It behaves as I described earlier
> >
> > Acute accent + c  prints ç in 12.04.3 but ć in 13.10
> >
> > setxkbmap pt gives a keyboard where I get ç, where the US keyboard has ;
> > (semicolon), the key below p.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Nio
> 
> @Nio:
> 
> Colud you add a comment to the bug with your new info? I think is
> better to avoid misunderstandings.
> 
> @André:
> 
> Could you gently try to set your whole system to US e test the
> keyboard for us? If is acting strange please add yourself to the
> affected user list on the bug report. Thanks.


Hi,

To the people affected by this bug, I would like to suggest trying also to configure
their keyboard with dpkg-reconfigure. ie:
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

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with or without sudo anyhow. To avoid the lxkeymap bug (in a 12.04 basis it simply does
not keep the configuration) I use this one desktop file in "Bento" (Ubuntu Openbox Remix,
12.04):
http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/BentoVillageProject/Configurations/System/usr/share/applications/keyboard-configuration.desktop

The reconfiguration is system wide, which is not ideal but at least works:
Exec=gksu "xterm -maximized -e 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'"

If you try to reconfigure with dpkg-reconfigure and that it provides the right keyboard,
the problem would be only in the gui app. I think trying the command line could
perhaps give an additional information.

Regards,
Mélodie