[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1832351] New: Macintosh keyboard variants not available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832351

Bug ID: 1832351
           Summary: Macintosh keyboard variants not available
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 32
          Hardware: x86_64
            Status: NEW
         Component: xkeyboard-config
          Severity: medium
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
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                    [e-mail],
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  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora

Description of problem:

I do not have any variants for Macintosh available when trying to change the
keyboard layout via the GUI (Region & Language Settings).

Trying to manually set the keymap in the locale works for the VC keymap, but
not for the X11 Layout. It will set VC keymap to "de-mac" or "de_mac"
respectively, leave the X11 Layout at "de"

localectl set-keymap de-mac

Digging even deeper, the following commands all yield the same errors:

localectl set-x11-keymap de-mac
localectl set-x11-keymap de_mac
localectl set-x11-keymap de macintosh de_mac

All yield: "Failed to set keymap: Specified keymap cannot be compiled, refusing
as invalid."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dnf info xkeyboard-config
Last metadata expiration check: 1:03:51 ago on Mi 06 Mai 2020 15:54:00 CEST.
Installed Packages
Name         : xkeyboard-config
Version      : 2.29
Release      : 1.fc32
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 5.5 M
Source       : xkeyboard-config-2.29-1.fc32.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : anaconda
Summary      : X Keyboard Extension configuration data
URL          : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
License      : MIT
Description  : This package contains configuration data used by the X Keyboard
Extension (XKB),
             : which allows selection of keyboard layouts when using a
graphical interface.

How reproducible:

Happens consistently. I'm on a fresh Fedora 32 install.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. localectl set-x11-keymap de macintosh de_mac

Actual results:
"Failed to set keymap: Specified keymap cannot be compiled, refusing as
invalid."

Expected results:
Successfully sets the keyboard layout to a Macintosh variant.

Additional info:

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1832351] Macintosh keyboard variants not available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832351

Peter Hutterer  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Peter Hutterer  ---
A bit hidden, but if I go to the gnome settings, select "German (Switzerland)"
it goes to a submenu where it provides "German (Switzerland, Macintosh)". Note
that de_mac is a *variant* of the *ch* layout, there is no de_mac variant for
the german layout. I think the right command would be localectl set-x11-keymap
ch evdev de_mac. evdev is needed because the order is layout model variant,
according to the man page.

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1832351] Macintosh keyboard variants not available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832351

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[Bug 1832351] Macintosh keyboard variants not available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832351

Bhushan Barve  changed:

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[Bug 1832351] Macintosh keyboard variants not available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832351

Peter Hutterer  changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |WORKSFORME
             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
        Last Closed|                            |2022-03-25 04:06:12

--- Comment #3 from Peter Hutterer  ---
I think this was answered in comment #1, please reopen if that's still an
issue.