Xorg Input Hotplugging

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Daniel Stone wrote:

>> Yeah, but editing fdi files according to the system settings does not
>> seem like an acceptable solution for OS distributors, does it?
> 
> Why is making an FDI less acceptable than making an xorg.conf?

Neither is very desiderable.  I'd make the first a read-only file
and ditch the second altogether (one day).

Per-user input settings such as the keyboard layout and mouse accel
belong to the desktop session.


>> The display managers should really set the keyboard themselves as
>> others have suggested in this thread.  And this is what I'm planning
>> to do in olpc-dm.
> 
> Yes, as I said, but failing that, the FDI.

Agreed.

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