just lost my pipe

[Christoph Höger]

Hi, 

as you might know, on german keyboards, the | symbol is created by
pressing AltGr and the key right to the shift key. 
In my last session on my f11 thinkpad (r61) I just lost that symbol.

AltGr - <ANYOTHERKEY> worked, so did < and > on that key. Only | was
gone. Reboot fixed that.

Any idea what subsytem (kernel, X) to blame for that? Any idea what I
can do to dig deeper into this?

regards

christoph

[Casey Dahlin]

Christoph Höger wrote:
>  Hi, 
>  
>  as you might know, on german keyboards, the | symbol is created by
>  pressing AltGr and the key right to the shift key. 
>  In my last session on my f11 thinkpad (r61) I just lost that symbol.
>  
>  AltGr - <ANYOTHERKEY> worked, so did < and > on that key. Only | was
>  gone. Reboot fixed that.
>  
>  Any idea what subsytem (kernel, X) to blame for that? Any idea what I
>  can do to dig deeper into this?
>  
>  regards
>  
>  christoph
>   
reproducing it would be of help.

Once you do, pulling the X log should probably be your first move. I doubt its the kernel,
but dmesg wouldn't be a bad idea either.

There's also ibus, but I'm not qualified to speak on that.

--CJD

[Christoph Höger]

It finally happened again:

This was AltGr + '<':

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001,
    root 0xfd, subw 0x0, time 149129465, (454,214), root:(463,323),
    state 0x2010, keycode 94 (keysym 0x3c, less), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3c) "<"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3c) "<"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

After switching to tty2 to verify that this happens only in X everything
is fine again:

Expected results:
KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001,
    root 0xfd, subw 0x0, time 149420489, (407,292), root:(410,359),
    state 0x2090, keycode 94 (keysym 0x7c, bar), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 51
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
    XFilterEvent returns: False


WTF?

[Casey Dahlin]

Christoph Höger wrote:
>  It finally happened again:
>  
>  This was AltGr + '<':
>  
>  KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001,
>      root 0xfd, subw 0x0, time 149129465, (454,214), root:(463,323),
>      state 0x2010, keycode 94 (keysym 0x3c, less), same_screen YES,
>      XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3c) "<"
>      XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3c) "<"
>      XFilterEvent returns: False
>  
>  After switching to tty2 to verify that this happens only in X everything
>  is fine again:
>  
>  Expected results:
>  KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4c00001,
>      root 0xfd, subw 0x0, time 149420489, (407,292), root:(410,359),
>      state 0x2090, keycode 94 (keysym 0x7c, bar), same_screen YES,
>      XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 51
>      XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
>      XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
>      XFilterEvent returns: False
>  
>  
>  WTF?
>   
Please open a bug about this if you haven't already.

--CJD

[Felix Kaechele]

Am 24.04.2009 19:23, schrieb Christoph Höger:
>  as you might know, on german keyboards, the | symbol is created by
>  pressing AltGr and the key right to the shift key.
>  In my last session on my f11 thinkpad (r61) I just lost that symbol. 
Well for me this happens after resuming my T61p from suspend. However I 
lost ALL of my AltGr related symbols. (Try writing an E-Mail without the 
@ or write a spec without the {}),
I fixed this by deactivating ibus and setting
export XMODIFIERS="XIM"
in my .bashrc.

I wasn't able to track the problem down to it's real root however.

Also check this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493650

Felix