[systemd-devel] systemd should not call KDSKBMODE on a VT with X

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 27.09.13 11:43, Arthur Taylor (art at ified.ca) wrote:

> 
> This is an old thread from February. Sorry I can't reply to the original email.
> 
> Apparently I failed to notice this question. My bad.
> 
> >> Hello systemd developers
> >>
> >> TL;DR: On a VT which X is running, messing with KDSKBMODE on
> >> underneath X at best has no affect and at worst breaks keyboard input
> >> badly. In the short term, systemd should stop calling this ioctl
> >> because it has no benefit and makes no sense.
> >
> > It sounds to me we indeed want to set K_UNICODE only if K_OFF (or
> > something else like it) is currently not set.
> >
> > However, before we change this, there's one thing that makes me wonder:
> > what does X11 do on shutdown? Does it put the kbd back to K_UNICODE? Or
> > back to K_XLATE?
> >
> > Lennart
> 
> 
> Provided the behaviour hasn't been changed in the last six months,
> Xorg remembers the VT KBMODE on start, set it to whatever it needs
> (sometimes more than once :-/ ) and restores it to the value it was on
> start upon exit.
> 
> (Of course if X crashes hard it isn't restored, and that is why
> SysRq+R was invented.)
> 
> 

This has been in place for a while, commited in February, does this
leave anything open?

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=a25d4d0e3ccf0e9bf0b37e5791275fd6ca5eb4ae

Lennart

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