On 05/05/2020 17:01, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
I see a glitch on the Keyboard for X (not on Mintty),
when I am running this Keyboard Layout
(--) Windows keyboard layout: "A0000407" (a0000407) "Deutsch - no dead
keys", type 34668816
(--) Found matching XKB configuration "German (Germany)"
(--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
(--) Windows keyboard layout device identifier indicates Macintosh,
setting Model = "macintosh"Rules = "base" Model = "macintosh" Layout =
"de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
the ALTGR+8 and ALTGR+9 produces {} (same as ALTGR+7 and ALTGR+0)
instead of the expected []
The Windows Layout is coming from:
https://zauner.nllk.net/post/0014-windows-no-dead-keys/
The problem is not present with the default Windows German Layout
(--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000407" (00000407) "German", type 7
(--) Found matching XKB configuration "German (Germany)"
(--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "de" Variant = "none" Options =
"none"
What ever this Model = "macintosh" is, I doubt having
ALTGR+8 same as ALTGR+7 makes any sense
There's some code in the X server which tries to identify if you are
using Windows under bootcamp on a mac, with the appropriate Windows
keyboard layout, and turns on model=mac there.
At the moment, this gets turned on if the top 2 bits of the layout ID
are set, which really just means "non-Microsoft provided layout", which
is perhaps too aggressive.
It's probably a bug in xkeyboard-config that combination of options
produces mapping that's messed up like that.
Suggestion?
i) Explicitly set the X server keyboard layout you want using setxkbmap
or the equivalent options.
ii) Provide the information per [1] and I can add it to the set of
layout autodetected by the server. (Not totally sure that's a the best
idea, as there's nothing to prevent someone else publishing a different
variant german layout with the same ID)
[1] https://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-submit-layout
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