#1123 xubuntu: bépo keyboard layout not recognized

[Sylvain Viart]

OS: xubuntu 12.04

With French-dvorak keybord layout, bépo, can be switched with:

$ setxkbmap fr bepo

The top line, aka numbers doesn't work until key "8". Shifted or not.

[Dominik Reichl]

Interesting; please report it to the 'xdotool' developer here:
https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/issues

Thanks and best regards,
Dominik

[Sylvain Viart]

hum… Ok.

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/issues/25

even not working with the fileopen popup

[Dominik Reichl]

Oh, sorry, I thought you meant that auto-type does not work correctly with this keyboard layout. However, it seems you meant input to KeePass in general. This is unrelated to 'xdotool'; you can close the 'xdotool' ticket.

Mono is responsible for handling keyboard input to KeePass. Your issue seems to be related to the following Mono bug:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323983

Best regards,
Dominik

[Sylvain Viart]

xdotool's ticket closed.

2007?
no key swap for me.

essentially the 8 top left hand numbered keys producing nothing.

² plus 1 to 7

others keys seem working with the expected bépo layout.

[Sylvain Viart]

mono's ticket:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822752

[Sylvain Viart]

Hi,

No move at all on the mono's ticket above…
Are you sure that's the good place?

I've found: http://www.mono-project.com/Support

I try to re-post here…

Regards,
Sylvain.

[Dominik Reichl]

I'm sure the Mono bugs tracker is the correct place to report this issue, yes.

Best regards,
Dominik

[Youbi]

Hi,

I’ve installed Keepass2 a few days ago, and found the same problem when trying to type my master password when using bépo. It seems that there is no problem with Mono: I built a little source code which open a window with an input field, and no problem.

Keepas2 2.28
Mono 3.2.8

Best Regards,

Youbi

[Clément Baudouin]

Hi there,
As I indicated in https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/14412, I found a small workaround to get bépo layout working in Keepass2 in Mono.

I use two keyboard layouts on my system: fr oss, and fr bepo_afnor.
The trick is to set x to use the azerty layout, then start mono, wait 1 second, then set x to use bépo again, and the field will actually accept bépo input.

I use this script to launch keepass:

#! /usr/bin/env bash

cd $HOME/Downloads/KeePass-2.55/ || exit 1

# wayland
if [[ $XDG_SESSION_TYPE == "wayland" ]]; then
    echo wayland detected
    if [[ $(qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts getLayout) == 0 ]]; then
        echo "detected layout 0 (bépo?)"
        setxkbmap fr,fr oss,bepo_afnor
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
        #keepass2 &
        exec /usr/bin/cli --verify-all ./KeePass.exe &
        sleep 1
        setxkbmap fr,fr bepo_afnor,oss
        exit
    else
        echo "detected layout 1 (azerty?)"
        setxkbmap fr,fr oss,bepo_afnor
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
        exec /usr/bin/cli --verify-all ./KeePass.exe &
        sleep 1
        setxkbmap fr,fr bepo_afnor,oss
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 1
        exit
    fi
fi

# x11
layout=$(setxkbmap -query | grep variant | cut -d ' ' -f5)
case "$layout" in
    "bepo_afnor,oss")
        echo detected bépo
        setxkbmap fr,fr oss,bepo_afnor
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
        #keepass2 &
        exec /usr/bin/cli --verify-all ./KeePass.exe &
        sleep 1
        setxkbmap fr,fr bepo_afnor,oss
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
        ;;
    *)
        echo detected azerty
        #keepass2 &
        exec /usr/bin/cli --verify-all ./KeePass.exe &
        sleep 2
        setxkbmap fr,fr oss,bepo_afnor
        ;;
esac

You can adapt it to your needs. Maybe more minimally use:

setxkbmap fr oss
keepass2 &
sleep 1
setxkbmap fr bepo

I don’t know if something can be done on Keepass or mono’s side to fix this, now that we know that this workaround exists.

[Clément Baudouin]

Now if we enable KPUInput plugin (Auto-Type on Wayland systems), and that we are using the bépo layout, the auto-type will not detect that and type the wrong characters. As a workaround, I use this scripts to switch back to azerty, do the auto-type, wait for 4 seconds (the time it takes to type approx. 32 characters on my system), and then switch back to bépo layout. I assign this script to a global shortcut. Not ideal, but it might help until we get a better solution.

#! /usr/bin/env bash

cd $HOME/Downloads/deb/KeePass-2.55/ || exit 1

# wayland
if [[ $XDG_SESSION_TYPE == "wayland" ]]; then
    echo wayland detected
    if [[ $(qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts getLayout) == 0 ]]; then
        echo "detected layout 0 (bépo?)"
        setxkbmap fr,fr bepo_afnor,oss
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 1
        #keepass2 &
        mono --verify-all ./KeePass.exe --auto-type
        sleep 1
        while [[ $(wmctrl -l | grep "Auto-Type Entry Selection") != "" ]]; do
            sleep 0.1
        done
        sleep 1
        while [[ $(wmctrl -l | grep "AutoTypeSearch") != "" ]]; do
            sleep 0.1
        done
        sleep 4
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
        exit
    else
        echo "detected layout 1 (azerty?)"
        mono --verify-all ./KeePass.exe --auto-type
        exit
    fi
fi

# x11
layout=$(setxkbmap -query | grep variant | cut -d ' ' -f5)
case "$layout" in
    "bepo_afnor,oss")
        echo detected bépo
        setxkbmap fr,fr oss,bepo_afnor
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
        #keepass2 &
        mono --verify-all ./KeePass.exe --auto-type
        sleep 1
        while [[ $(wmctrl -l | grep "Auto-Type Entry Selection") != "" ]]; do
            sleep 0.1
        done
        sleep 1
        while [[ $(wmctrl -l | grep "AutoTypeSearch") != "" ]]; do
            sleep 0.1
        done
        sleep 4
        setxkbmap fr,fr bepo_afnor,oss
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
    ;;
    *)
        echo detected azerty
        setxkbmap fr,fr oss,bepo_afnor
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
        #keepass2 &
        mono --verify-all ./KeePass.exe --auto-type
        sleep 1
        while [[ $(wmctrl -l | grep "Auto-Type Entry Selection") != "" ]]; do
            sleep 0.1
        done
        sleep 1
        while [[ $(wmctrl -l | grep "AutoTypeSearch") != "" ]]; do
            sleep 0.1
        done
        sleep 4
        setxkbmap fr,fr oss,bepo_afnor
        qdbus org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
    ;;
esac

[Clément Baudouin]

I noticed something interesting: if I start Keepass while in azerty layout, Keepass will switch my keyboard to the other layout, bépo.

setxkbmap -query; cli /usr/lib/keepass2/KeePass.exe &; sleep 3; setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc104
layout:     fr,fr
variant:    oss,bepo_afnor
[1] 143223

(cli:143223): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:41:16.727: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
rules:      evdev
model:      pc104
layout:     fr,fr
variant:    bepo_afnor,oss

That’s probably a bug in Keepass as I could not reproduce this behaviour with the mono example that is available at https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/14412

See https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/bugs/2273/