Error with libxklavier (xorg 6.9, gnome 2.12, freebsd 6.0)

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:
> Dear all,
>  
> I have seen this reported before but if anyone has a solution, please help!
>  
> I start Gnome 2.12 on my FreeBSD 6.0 with the latest ports installed and I get a window telling me:
>  
> http://www.aphax.nl/images/xkb-gnome-error.png
>  
> (I am attaching the same link, as I have exactly the same error window as Hans Nieser)
>  
> (It says error possible bug in libxklavier or xorg to cut a long story short, if you have problems accessing the above link).
>  
> Xorg is 6.9.0
>  
> The gnome system has become extremely slow at times (mostly when opening applications), and keyboard switching from english to greek and vice versa does not work (as I suspected that it wouldn't).
>  
> Any ideas? (I have updated my ports tree just the day before yesterday, and it took me one day (yesterday) to rebuild gnome (2nd time) to get the same unpleasant result...
>  
> Please help.

I'm seeing this error message too. This is the requested debug output 
from my system:

% xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us,el", ",", 
"grp:alt_shift_toggle"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
% gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
  layouts = [us,el]
  model =
  overrideSettings = false
  options = []

One relevant change in Xorg 6.9.0 is that they renamed the greek symbols 
file from "gr" to "el". Although reverting this in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols.dir and renaming 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/el to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/gr 
doesn't seem to make a difference. Even worse:

% setxkbmap el
Error loading new keyboard description
% setxkbmap gr
Error loading new keyboard description

And the weirdest thing is that libxklavier doesn't seem to have any 
commits in their CVS repository for two years, even though the latest 
release is not that old.


Panagiotis