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How can I sort out Xephyr's keyboard mapping?

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Mar 15, 20267155 views
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Problem

When I start up Xephyr inside of X, my keyboard map becomes wonky mostly just for non-printing characters. I can't use arrow keys. According to xev, The down arrow gets mapped to Super_R. The up arrow is Print Screen. PgDown is mapped to "Menu". My keyboard works fine in the original X display (:0)…

Error Output

setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps

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I found Bug 19365 which solved my problem: Starting Xnest / Xephyr with -kb.

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