Keyboard doesn't work if X was started as user

[Samuel Verstraete]

You have it as a symlink.... which is not what i said. It should be an
empty directory. 

I used to have the same symlink :)

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:45:08 +0200
Tassilo Horn <tassilo at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Samuel Verstraete <samuel.verstraete at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> > I have noticed that the xkbvariant stuff only works if there is a
> > /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled directory. Even if it contains nothing.
> 
> I have it, but that seems not to be related to my problems.
> 
> heimdall at baldur ~> ll /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-10-01
> 15:03 /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled \ -> /var/lib/xkb/
> 
> With xkeyboard-config-1.1 the Windows-Key didn't work at all, there
> were no Umlauts and AltGr wasn't available, too (with a "de" layout,
> "dvorak" variant).
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo