setxkbmap crashes whole xorg-server

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:26:56PM +0200, Tobias Jakobi wrote:
> I just wanted to use setxkbmap to change my keyboard layout (I need to 
> change from DE to US prior to starting wine because of some nasty bug 
> with some games) and it crashed the entire X server.

ouch. what was the exact command you ran?

> The second thing is: Can I somehow change the layout using another tool? 
> I was under the impression that xinput should do that now. But that 
> doesn't seem to be the case. At least it doesn't show any layout 
> property with list-props.

xkb isn't exposed as device property, so xinput doesn't do anything here.
there's setxkbmap and xkbcomp which are the main tools to load xkb
descriptions.

Cheers,
  Peter