Hi all,
I’ve recently installed OpenSuse 11.2 with KDE 4.4.2
And I have a problem when I try to make changes in russian (ru phonetic) keyboard layout.
I have french AZERTY keyboard and I use two languages / keyboard layouts French & Russian.
I use standard “KDE Keyboard layout switcher”.
Here is “command line” from layout switcher :
setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout fr,ru -variant ,phonetic
Here is what i see when I type in console setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(azerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+fr+ru(phonetic):2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)+capslock(capslock)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
};
For some reason when I log out, on the login window (password) my keyboard is switched to QWERTY layout, which is very annoying when need type correct password 
But the most important problem I have is that when I try change russian (RU) keyboard layout file from “/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/” directory, in order to switch some letters position (for better work-flow)
I do some modification, then save file (correctly saved) but when I log out or reboot PC keyboard layout still the same without my changes.
Here you can see few lines from modified file :
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "phonetic" {
name[Group1]= "Russia - Phonetic";
key <AE01> { exclam, 1 ] };
key <AE02> { at, 2 ] };
key <AE03> { Cyrillic_io, 3, quotedbl ] };
key <AE04> { Cyrillic_IO, 4 ] };
key <AE05> { Cyrillic_hardsign, 5, parenleft ] };
key <AE06> { Cyrillic_HARDSIGN, 6 ] };
key <AE07> { ampersand, 7 ] };
key <AE08> { asterisk, 8 ] };
key <AE09> { parenleft, 9 ] };
key <AE10> { plus, 0, at ] };
key <AE11> { parenright, degree ] };
and here is same lines from original russian keyboard layout file:
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "phonetic" {
name[Group1]= "Russia - Phonetic";
key <AE01> { 1, exclam ] };
key <AE02> { 2, at ] };
key <AE03> { 3, Cyrillic_io ] };
key <AE04> { 4, Cyrillic_IO ] };
key <AE05> { 5, Cyrillic_hardsign ] };
key <AE06> { 6, Cyrillic_HARDSIGN ] };
key <AE07> { 7, ampersand ] };
key <AE08> { 8, asterisk ] };
key <AE09> { 9, parenleft ] };
key <AE10> { 0, parenright ] };
Here is my file from /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-keymap.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
<append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fr,ru</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string",phonetic>
<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">caps:capslock</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
I have looked everywhere in Internet, but didn’t found any advice how fix this problem.
I also have Linux Mint (Gnome) on other 3 computers and did same modification of keyboard layout file and it works fine.
Thank you for the help.
