[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#686612: Bug#686612: ibus-m17n: <AltGr> and <Shift>-non-ascii do not work

[Tore Ferner]

On 04. sep. 2012 07:18, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tore Ferner <torfer at pvv.org> writes:
> 
>> > On a latin type2 qwerty keyboard (Norwegian):
>> > After selecting hi-phonetic in ibus, in Gnome-shell, expected
>> > characters according to /usr/share/m17n/hi-phonetic.mim are not
>> > produced for symbols accessed with AltGr.
> Most of mim maps designed to work under "us" keymap, so I guess it is
> not supposed to run under a Norwegian layout natively.  But,
> 
>> > It used to work in Squeeze.
> it looks a bit strange that it worked in Squeeze.  Perhaps you could
> check "Use system keyboard layout" checkbox in ibus-setup?  If it is not
> checked, IBus should use "us" keymap internally.


In squeeze:
I've checked again and it works. I can also add new AltGr-remaps - quite
handy if you want to make things even more phonetic.

When I  turn off "Use system keyboard layout", I get an American
keyboard layout and AltGr is just ignored. Hence hi-phonetic.mim works
as expected either way.


In wheezy:
Turning off "Use system keyboard layout" gives me an American keyboard -
except that all default Norwegian AltGr-characters still works, both
shifted and unshifted. Seems AltGr just bypasses ibus.


This also suggests that AltGr should work, at least upstream, see bug
BZ#652201:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/ibus-m17n.html


Best regards,
Tore