Keyboard layout switcher is unrealible

[bmarkus]

Using lxpanel 0.5.5 Keyboard Layout Switcher plugin is unrealible. I have four layouts defined in xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,de,fr,hu"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

When plugin is added to the panel in few cases randomly works properly but in most of the time displays "UNKNOWN" and doesn't work. When system restarted with a plugin it always shows "UNKNOWN",

Defining only one layout result is the same, randomly display selected layout or "UNKNOWN".

Any idea?

P.S. It is on Tiny Core Linux 2.10

[Marty Jack]

This commit which is post 0.5.5 could very well solve your problem.

http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/git ... 8a02b7c04b

[bmarkus]

Marty, thanks. Unfortunately patched lxpanel behaves the same way

[Marty Jack]

In this forum post is a program I would like to have you run and post the output. We'll get to the bottom of this yet.

http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1397

[bmarkus]

In this forum post is a program I would like to have you run and post the output. We'll get to the bottom of this yet.

http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1397

Sorry but do not understand your post

[Marty Jack]

The second post down in that topic has a little program that dumps out what the X server says your Xkb configuration looks like. This is actually chopped out of LXPanel, so is the same code you are running to initialize the keyboard applet. If you compile that according to the instructions there and run it, it will be a start on seeing why we're apparently mishandling what your server is reporting.

[bmarkus]

OK, it's clear. I was in hurry when read your previous post, sorry. Will try it in few days.

[bmarkus]

Marty, this is the output of xkbtest:

Code: Select all

4
USA
Germany
France
Hungary
pc+us+de:2+fr:3+hu:4

[Marty Jack]

Hopefully fixed in git commit 7f4490c5db477662685f49bc0253be52354c3008. Thanks for the help tracking it down.

[bmarkus]

Hopefully fixed in git commit 7f4490c5db477662685f49bc0253be52354c3008. Thanks for the help tracking it down.

Just built lxpanel from git. Unfortunately no change, still doesn't work

BTW, "Keyboard LED" plugin now shows all three LED's correctly; in 0.5.5 ScrollLock status did not work.

Let me know how can I help.