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Fluxbox-13.37 with xfce4-panel

I installed xfce4-xkb-plugin and added the applet to the panel. The default layout is US. I added
German (qwerty) and the applet duly changes the flags when clicked on, however, in German the
KB does not render the German characters in a urxvt terminal, the curser does not move. The
German characters, however, to show in xterm, this posting and in abiword.

I removed the applet, rebooted to no avail the KB is screwded-up with urxvt terminal.
Before this xkb-plugin venture urxvt did render German characters when changed with the
'setxkbmap de' command. Not anymore.

How to resolve?

Perhaps it's a problem with urxvt. Try another terminal, like sakura.

It is a problem with urxvt and some other terminals. If the xkb-plugin works with other programs (Firefox, Libreoffice, Mousepad etc), it works. My solution to it was to use either XFCE Terminal or Sakura.

Just to set matters straight:

Before I installed xfce4-xkb-plugin, urxvt did show characters others then US correctly
when command 'setxkbmap ??' was given. That feature got lost after invoking xfce4-xkb-plugin.

To check I just booted into a live CD of another linux distro, installed rxvt-unicode and urxvt does show
correct characters of other keyboard settings just like before in this box of Salix Fluxbox-13.37.
I will install later in that live CD distro xfce4-xkb-plugin and sees what will happen.

I uninstalled rxvt-unicode and reinstalled the feature is still lost.

I have no problem using other terminals in fact by birth I am an xtermer.

I tried it out, no problems here, I used both the xkb-plugin and the command setxkbmap, urxvt dispalys all languages tried (Latvian, Russian, Polish, German, Swedish, Czech) properly. Note, I used the option to change globally.

So I do not have a clue....

I forgot that I have live Salix xfce4 CD.

Booted it. Installed rxvt-unicode and kbx-plugin applet. All worked perfectly with different
languages rendered by urxvt both with command or applet invoked.

I noticed that on the live CD the Keyboard-Model is set to something starting with E. Can't see
it in my xkb applet where the KB-Model space is blank.

So what could the problem be in my Fluxbox. Is it the KB-Model setting?

PelleB which version of Salix are you using?

Salix 13.37 Xfce 16-bit, but I use Fluxbox nearly all the time (I tried the xkb-plugin using Xfce though). I did set the keyboard type to 105-key international, after the xkb-plugin had crashed.

In Fluxbox I made menu entries for setxkbmap, in that way I also may choose between more than four different layouts.