Bug#581756: keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS does not properly propagate to xserver-xorg

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:48:03PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 17:10:14 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > > # If you change any of the following variables and HAL and X are
> > > # configured to use this file, then the changes will become visible to
> > > # X only if HAL is restarted.  In Debian you need to run
> > > # /etc/init.d/hal restart
> > > 
> The above comment is wrong nowadays..

(I hope my config file is up to date, but I think it should be.)

> Did you reboot after changing /etc/default/keyboard?  That file is read
> by /lib/udev/rules.d/64-xorg-xkb.rules on boot (or keyboard hotplug).
> 'udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change' might be
> enough to trigger an event and re-read the configuration.

Thanks! Reboot is not a trivial matter for me on this machine,
but the udevadm incantation did the trick nicely!

So I suppose updating the comment in the config file and modifying the
configuration script to do this after updating the configuration should
be enough to fix the bug?


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:51:25PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> (15/05/2010):
> > And sure enough, I cannot use ctrl-alt-bksp in my X session to zap
> > the X server, a rather important functionality.
> 
> You need to turn off the DontZap option, see xorg.conf(5).

I do that already.  However, isn't that the default again now that xkb
does not set the terminate option by default anymore?  If not, I think
that's another bug - why would you still keep DontZap at on at this
point?  And the keyboard-configuration setup would be highly misleading,
not mentioning this requirement during the terminate option setup.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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