[systemd-devel] Changing how localed writes keymap for xorg

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 03:08:10 PST 2015


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>
wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be better to do the following:
>
> 1. deprecate the 00-keyboard.conf xorg.conf.d file
> 2. Instead apply the locale settings in udev via "xkb*" properties
>
> This then allows the properties to change during runtime and the keymaps
> will be much more hotplug friendly and reactive to dynamic changes.
>

I wonder if udev properties wouldn't also have another advantage of being
usable by non-X programs that also use xkb (kmscon, Wayland compositors)...

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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