Package: kcontrol Version: 4:3.2.2-1 Severity: normal I go to the "Xkb options"*) tab in the keyboard_layout KControl module and check the "Compose key" box and several subordinate boxes like "Use menu key as compose key". After having pressed "Ok", all key presses are ignored. (Or maybe only some key presses are ignored or key presses are ignored only in certain situations. I don't remember exactly and I don't want to try it right now, since I probably wouldn't be able to finish this bug report then. :-))
After restarting KDE, the keyboard works again but no key is used as a compose key. So the keyboard works exactly the way it had before when no compose-key-related checkbox was checked. If I enter setxkbmap -option compose:ralt or setxkbmap -option compose:menu manually in Konsole while KDE is running, the respective keys work as compose keys. However, if I enter setxkbmap -option compose:rwin and press the right Windows key afterwards, I'm not able to enter anything on the current Konsole anymore. If I switch to another running Konsole, I'm able to enter characters and if I switch back to the first Konsole, entering characters works again. If I don't have KDE running, I'm also able to make the right Windows key a compse key via directly using setxkbmap. *) I use German localization. Throughout this whole bug report I will translate the German texts back into English. The original English texts might differ. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-pike Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages kcontrol depends on: ii kdebase-data 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (shared data) ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libasound2 1.0.5-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ii libaudio2 1.6d-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-4.1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libraw1394-5 0.10.1-1 library for direct access to IEEE ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-4 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System event recording an ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information