https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553#c1 --- Comment #1 from Richard Farthing 2007-10-25 16:49:38 MST --- I should add that this is for the root user. Normal users appear to be OK -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553#c3 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sndirsch@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|sndirsch@novell.com | --- Comment #3 from Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-30 08:18:35 MST --- No. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553#c5 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |dmueller@novell.com --- Comment #5 from Stefan Dirsch 2008-04-03 09:08:15 MST --- Are you sure, Dirk? I can run any kind of setxkbmap command on top of nxagent. XKEYBOARD also shows up in xdpyinfo output. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553#c7 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|NX cannot set international keyboard layout |NX: cannot change keyboard layout as user root --- Comment #7 from Stefan Dirsch 2008-04-03 11:48:14 MST --- Can also reproduce it with using nxagent only. <root> nxagent -ac :2 & <root> DISPLAY=:2 setxkbmap de The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:

Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols Ignoring extra symbols Error: Cannot open "compiled/server-2.xkm" to write keyboard description Exiting Error loading new keyboard description

<user> nxagent -ac :3 & <user> DISPLAY=:3 setxkbmap de The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:

Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

So it's this one:

Error: Cannot open "compiled/server-2.xkm" to write keyboard description

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553#c9 --- Comment #9 from Stefan Dirsch 2008-04-04 07:08:22 MST --- root: execve("/usr/share/X11/xkb/xkbcomp", ["/usr/share/X11/xkb/xkbcomp", "-w", "1", "-R/usr/share/X11/xkb", "-xkm", "-", "-em1", "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (x"..., "-emp"..., "> "..., "-eml"..., "Errors from xkbcomp are not fata"..., "compiled/server-1.xkm"...], [/* 113 vars */]) = 0 regular user: execve("/usr/share/X11/xkb/xkbcomp", ["/usr/share/X11/xkb/xkbcomp", "-w", "1", "-R/usr/share/X11/xkb", "-xkm", "-", "-em1", "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (x"..., "-emp"..., "> "..., "-eml"..., "Errors from xkbcomp are not fata"..., "/var/tmp/server-1.xkm"...], [/* 113 vars */]) = 0 There is no directory/symlink /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553 User rf@keynet-technology.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335553#c11 --- Comment #11 from Richard Farthing 2008-04-04 07:57:18 MST --- Thanks - works for me! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.