Hi Andrew, At 2023-10-23T10:41:10+1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > On Sun, 2023-10-22 at 13:18 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > fixed the problem. It is strange this option seems to be affected by > > the keyboard settings in gnome settings, however i changed all > > options back and forth in the GUI so they should work, but it > > somehow didn't. Resetting the option above fixed it. Since I've > > never used dconf before, I guess there is a bug somewhere that lead > > to this situation. > > Possibly not related, but a friend noted that after a recent Gentoo > update his compose key stopped working. Turned out to be a conflict > between the XkbOptions compose:ralt and grp:switch which were both > enabled. Turns out something has changed and if they're both set it > won't work.
I had been surprised to learn earlier this year that quite a bit of cleanup work has been going on in XKB upstream. In fact, prior to some CVEs that cropped up last month, such cleanup, undertaken by at least 3 different people, has dominated recent libx11 development. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commits/master Way back when I was maintaining Debian's XFree86 packages, I had despaired of such an effort ever being understaken. It's a good thing to see. But I would not be surprised if some formerly invalid-but-quietly-accepted configuration combinations, which so often in XKB seem to arise from cargo-cult practices, start behaving differently, or stop behaving at all. Regards, Branden
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