[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#600860: (Upstream) Issue 59922: Ignore gnome keyboard settings (XF86Back)

[Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva]

Hi Jonathan.

Excerpts from Jonathan Nieder's message of Ter Nov 09 00:30:49 -0200 2010:
(...)
> Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
> 
> > Behavior in Linux Firefox:
> > When I switch the keyboard layout, the key that used to be XF86Back,
> > now works as Control_R.
> >
> > 1. Use a keyboard layout that changes XF86Back key to Control_R, like:
> >    http://marcot.eti.br/data/etc/br_nt .
> > 2. Press this key in Google Chrome.
> >
> > What is the expected result?
> > It should work as Control_R.
> >
> > What happens instead?
> > It works as XF86Back.
> 
> Could you give a step-by-step recipe for reproducing this?

That's what I tried to do above.  I'll try to fill the blanks now, if anything
is missing, please ask me again so that I can provide more details.

> In particular, I am not sure how to load the br_nt layout

I don't know how to do it in a non-intrusive way.  The way I do is, I copy
br_nt file to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ and change
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml to know of br_nt existence, like in
http://marcot.eti.br/data/etc/evdev.xml .

> --- what program do you use, and does it matter whether chromium is open at
> that point?

No, I don't think this is related, since the layout is loaded when GNOME is
started.

Greetings.
(...)
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marcot
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