[Fedora-i18n-list] Japanese key board difficulties

[Akira TAGOH]

>>>>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:01:20 -0700 (PDT),
>>>>> "JFL" == John Francis Lee <jfmxl at yahoo.com> wrote:

JFL> Hello,
JFL> I list below the error message I got from my LinuxTLE (Fedora Core 3)
JFL> system when I tried to add Japanese to the keyboard switcher after
JFL> choosing Japanese at log in  :

JFL> ' Error activating XKB configuration.
JFL> Probably internal X server problem.

JFL> X server version data:
JFL> The X.Org Foundation
JFL> 60801000

JFL> If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
JFL> - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
JFL> - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
JFL> '

JFL> I ran the two requested programs remotely from an ssh terminal. The guy
JFL> who wanted to use Japanese said he'd muddle through just reading
JFL> Japanese and is doing so on the machine right now.

JFL> [root at ws1 ~]# xprop -root | grep XKB
JFL> X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
JFL>   Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
JFL>   Atom id in failed request:  0x111
JFL>   Serial number of failed request:  11
JFL>   Current serial number in output stream:  11

It looks like your X server doesn't support the XKB
extention and GNOME just reported it.
You could read/write Japanese without changing the keyboard
layout to Japanese keyboard because you can input Japanese
without Japanese keyboard layout and the input method
supports it.

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Akira TAGOH