Bug#333398: gnome: Weird behaviour of keyboard

[Benjamin Piwowarski]

Loïc Minier wrote:

>        Hi,
>
>On Tue, Oct 11, 2005, Benjamin Piwowarski wrote:
>  
>
>>Having a laptop with a french keyboard and an USB keyboard with a
>>spanish one connected to it, I am experiencing weird problems with
>>the latter.
>>Everything is working well, except when I use the control key... Here is
>>the output of xev when pressing control + a:
>>    
>>
>
> Does this happen under GNOME only?  Please try out of GNOME (put:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>xterm
>
> in a .xinitrc and try from there, chmod +x .xinitrc, startx)
>
>   Cheers,
>  
>
This only happen with gnome when I change the keyboard layout with the 
applet. With the xterm session, I have only the french keyboard layout 
so the problem cannot appear. I now use kxkb (from kde) and everything 
works well (I can switch to the french/spanish keyboards without any 
problem).

cheers,
benjamin