On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 09:16 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:15:03PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > Yes, that works (at least lshal now returns the correct values; I have > > > long-running jobs so I can't log out to test if X receives them). From > > > what little I understand from HAL, the call to debian-setup-keyboard > > > happens _after_ procesing the .fdi files, so it will always overwrite > > > any custom configuration unconditionally. > > > > > that still sounds like a hal bug to me. > > I don't think so. You specify in a config file that it should run a > script that updates the configuration, but you expect that script to run > _before_ parsing the config files? > i expect that whatever's in /etc (configuration) overrides whatever's in /usr (defaults), yes.
> > > > > You should probably not only check for the existence of the input.xkb.* > > > keys, but also that all keys still have the default value. Probably you > > > should remove the xkb-specific part from > > > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi, and > > > > that's shipped by hal, so xserver-xorg can't do anything about that. > > Yes you can. You can request the HAL maintainers to disable that script > (IMHO the directory is called "OS vendor" for a reason), and then depend > on the corrected HAL version. > sigh. that would still mean a change in hal first, wouldn't it? > > > debian-setup-keyboard should only set the input.xkb.* properties if they > > > are _all_ empty (otherwise it would be difficult to distinguish the > > > "layout is US by default" and the "layout has been explicitely set to > > > US" cases). > > > > > i don't think debian-setup-keyboard can distinguish between 'layout set > > by hal's 10-keymap.fdi' and 'layout set by the user's config' currently. > > I've just described how you can do it in my previous mail. not without a change in hal. hence "currently". so no, you didn't. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
