Package: xbase-clients
Version: 1:7.0.1-2
Severity: normal
The hr(us) layout appears completely broken in the current X server in
testing. While the command `setxkbmap hr us' does not report an error, it
leaves the keyboard in an unusable state: all ASCII characters, such as
letters, numbers, and ASCII symbols are unavailable. Arrows, function keys,
space, backspace and return are still available, and so are the additional
Croatian characters the layout is supposed to offer! Running `setxkbap us'
correctly restores the keyboard to the US layout. `setxkbmap hr' likewise
works well. I use the "kbd" keyboard driver, but observed behavior is
identical with both "keyboard" and "kbd".
Some background info: the hr(us) layout is designed to be identical to the
US keyboard layout, but with the Croatian letters available by pressing
AltGr along with the key where the character would be on a Croatian
keyboard. For example, pressing AltGr-; emits ccaron because ccaron is
positioned on ; on a regular Croatian keyboard. This layout is very useful
for programming because it retains syntactical symbols (parentheses, square
and curly braces, slash, backslash semicolons, etc.) at their "standard"
positions, while allowing full access to Croatian-specific letters without
switching layouts.
The layout used to be known as hr_US in older XFree86 releases, then hr(alt)
for a while in ubuntu, and was finally renamed to hr(us). The file that is
supposed to describe it is /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/hr; refer to the
xkb_symbols "us" { ... } section.
I'm reporting this to xbase-clients because that's where the setxkbmap
command resides. If another package is more appropriate, feel free to
reassign.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 2:1.0.0-3 X11 Font Services library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.4.1-0.4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-5.1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.2-3 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 event trapping extension libra
ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii libxv1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.0-3 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.0-4 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.0.20 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
xbase-clients recommends no packages.
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