Hi everybody,
After successfully installed and tried for a few days Easy 4.5.5, with:
Country Settings: fr_CA (UTF-8) Keyboard: cf (having PC 102 keys int'l keyboard with Quebec symbol configuration on it)
I found myself suddenly unable to get some keys (like bracketleft and bracketright, normaly key AD11 and AD12 on 'cf' config).
Thinking that I may have inadvertently change my keyboard by pressing 'ok' instead of closing the keyboard config box,
I tried every configuration possible in:
Pup Control -> Parameters -> ~Basic configuration (2nd icon) and ~Country config (3rd icon) and
Pup Control -> Material -> ~Input peripherals (3rd icon)
I selected 'cf' as country for my keyboard (and also 'fr'),
and tried 101, 104, 105 keys generic keyboard.
In ~'Xkb keymap configuration' dialog box I tried 'ca'-Canada, 'qc'-Quebec and 'fr'-France.
And also tried all keyboard variations for 'ca' which are:
fr-dvorak / fr-legacy / multix / multi / multi-2gr [and not of course Inuktitut 
]
without success.-
-> At one point I looked at the file /etc/keymap -> which contained: cf (seeming normal)
-> I also experimented with a perfectly running Easy 4.5.2 version. I changed the keyboard config and then, tried to get back to the original install made by the system at first installation and got the same problem as on version 4.5.5.
Finally, after many hours of guessing and trying to find the right config files, I found at the beginning of /etc/X11/symbols/ca:
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xkb_symbols "fr" {
name[Group1] = "French (Canada)";has the right AD11 (bracketleft), AD12 (bracketright), AC11, BKSL keys...
And I found that the file /etc/X11/symbols/qc:
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xkb_symbols "fr" {
name[Group1] = "Quebec";has exactly the same keymap as the file 'ca' for the symbol "fr" (a repeat of the same information).
Note that 'qc' is may be a vestige of the past.
The interesting thing is that the symbol "fr" (and the associated keys which are the right ones) is not available in the keyboard variations dialog box (presenting only: fr-dvorak / fr-legacy / multix / multi / multi-2gr/inuktitu/english)
May be the solution is there.
Which would explained why, trying to repeat the problem in version 4.5.2, I think I saw in the original 'Country configuration' dialog box:
1) fr_CA French,Canada 2) Canada/Eastern (as tz) 3) fr (France)
That's the combination that works but that I'm unable to replicate.
Re-calling Bologne Che, never encountered this problem ?
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