dvorak works fine, but ctrl+<foo> is wrong (not even qwerty)

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> I'm using a regular ps/2 azerty keyboard but with dvorak layout.  The
> problem is the dvorak layout by itself works fine, but when I press (and
> hold) ctrl the other buttons behave totally differently, some seem to be
> qwerty again but sometimes it's even different.
> I test this in urxvt and xterm, so no gtk or gnome is involved (not that
> I know)
> Examples: (xev output follows later)
> * ctrl+c becomes ctrl+i (dvorak c is on qwerty i)
> * ctrl+j on dvorak does not become ctrl+c (what it would be in qwerty).
> * ctrl+a only produces a ctrl character.

I tried reproducing your problem a few days ago but failed. Please open a
bugreport and attach the output of xkbcomp -xkb :0 -. Don't think there'll be
anything interesting, but it might be a start.

> * xev ctrl+j
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>     root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 1240357, (171,-26), root:(197,69),
>     state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>     root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 1241550, (171,-26), root:(197,69),
>     state 0x14, keycode 54 (keysym 0x6a, j), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0a) "
> "
>     XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0a) "
> "
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>     root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 1241644, (171,-26), root:(197,69),
>     state 0x14, keycode 54 (keysym 0x6a, j), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0a) "
> "
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001,
>     root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 1242297, (171,-26), root:(197,69),
>     state 0x14, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
>     XFilterEvent returns: False

at least this one doesn't look weird, the other two are different. Have you
tried starting a plain X server with nothing but xterm? Does this reproduce
the issue?
 
Cheers,
  Peter