I previously had the ability to type cyrillic charecters however after the following upgrades:
alsa-driver-1.0.8_2.4.30-i486-1 to alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.4.31-i486-1
alsa-lib-1.0.8-i486-1 to alsa-lib-1.0.9-i486-1
alsa-oss-1.0.8-i486-1 to alsa-oss-1.0.9-i486-1
alsa-utils-1.0.8-i486-1 to alsa-utils-1.0.9a-i486-2
arts-1.4.1-i486-1 to arts-1.4.2-i486-1
devs-2.3.1-noarch-21 to devs-2.3.1-noarch-22
distcc-2.18.3-i486-1 to distcc-2.18.3-i486-2
doxygen-1.4.3-i486-1 to doxygen-1.4.4-i486-1
e2fsprogs-1.35-i486-1 to e2fsprogs-1.38-i486-2
espgs-8.15rc3-i486-1 to espgs-8.15rc3-i486-2
etc-5.1-noarch-9 to etc-5.1-noarch-10
gaim-1.3.1-i486-1 to gaim-1.4.0-i486-1
gcc-3.3.5-i486-1 to gcc-3.3.6-i486-1
gcc-g++-3.3.5-i486-1 to gcc-g++-3.3.6-i486-1
gimp-2.2.7-i486-1 to gimp-2.2.8-i486-1
gkrellm-2.2.4-i486-1 to gkrellm-2.2.7-i486-1
glibc-2.3.5-i486-2 to glibc-2.3.5-i486-4
glibc-solibs-2.3.5-i486-2 to glibc-solibs-2.3.5-i486-4
glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-2 to glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-4
gnet-2.0.7-i486-2 to gnet-2.0.7-i486-3
groff-1.19.1-i486-1 to groff-1.19.1-i486-2
guile-1.6.5-i486-1 to guile-1.6.7-i486-1
hotplug-2004_09_23-noarch-2 to hotplug-2004_09_23-noarch-4
imagemagick-6.2.3_0-i486-1 to imagemagick-6.2.3_3-i486-1
iptables-1.2.11-i486-1 to iptables-1.3.3-i486-1
j2sdk-1_5_0_03-i586-1 to j2sdk-1_5_0_04-i586-1
k3b-0.12-i486-1 to k3b-0.12.3-i486-2
kdelibs-3.4.1-i486-1 to kdelibs-3.4.2-i486-1
libexif-0.6.12-i486-1 to libexif-0.6.12-i486-2
libtiff-3.7.2-i486-1 to libtiff-3.7.3-i486-1
libxml2-2.6.19-i486-1 to libxml2-2.6.20-i486-1
links-2.1pre15-i486-1 to links-2.1pre18-i486-1
mozilla-firefox-1.0.4-i686-1 to mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-i686-1
mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.2-i686-1jim to mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-i686-1
perl-5.8.6-i486-1 to perl-5.8.7-i486-1
pkgtools-10.1.0-i486-4 to pkgtools-10.2.0-i486-4
ppp-2.4.2-i486-2 to ppp-2.4.3-i486-1
qt-3.3.4-i486-1 to qt-3.3.4-i486-2
smartmontools-5.30-i486-1 to smartmontools-5.33-i486-1
sysvinit-2.84-i486-51 to sysvinit-2.84-i486-56
taglib-1.3.1-i486-1 to taglib-1.4-i486-1
tcl-8.4.6-i486-1 to tcl-8.4.11-i486-1
tcpdump-3.8.3-i486-2 to tcpdump-3.9.3-i486-1
tcpip-0.17-i486-31 to tcpip-0.17-i486-34
tk-8.4.6-i486-1 to tk-8.4.11-i486-1
udev-050-i486-1 to udev-064-i486-2
vim-6.3.078-i486-1 to vim-6.3.085-i486-1
wireless-tools-26-i486-3 to wireless-tools-27-i486-2
x11-6.8.2-i486-1 to x11-6.8.2-i486-2
xlockmore-5.13-i486-1 to xlockmore-5.18-i486-1
xmms-1.2.10-i486-2 to xmms-1.2.10-i486-3
xscreensaver-4.21-i486-2 to xscreensaver-4.22-i486-2
zlib-1.2.2-i486-1 to zlib-1.2.3-i486-1
I no longer have that ability. (The placeholder boxes appear).
Code:
xlsfonts | grep cyrillic
produces a nul output. My /var/log/Xorg.0.log has:
Code:
...
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
(**) XKB: model: "pc104"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us, ru"
(**) XKB: layout: "us, ru"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
...
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard1: Core Keyboard
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard1: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbModel: "pc104"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us, ru"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbLayout: "us, ru"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard1: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard1" (type: KEYBOARD)
...
This as far as I can tell shows that the cyrillic fonts folder is in the font path and X should allow for an 'ru' keyboard configuration. To troubleshoot I have reinstalled the x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.8.2-noarch-1 package and made cyrillic the only font in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, all to no avail. Any suggestions on a path forward (other than installing kde18i) would be greatly appreciated.
My machine runs Slackware:Current
Fluxbox Window Manager
Thank you for your time and assistance
