On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 17:30:46 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > There is no documentation on how to enable xserver zapping functionality > in keyboard-setup, a rather important feature which changed default > behavior since last stable release. The only way to normally find out > is to run dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration _and_ let > keyboard-configuration completely rewrite all the setting (it cannot > reproduce more complex multi-layout settings easily, it seems). > > Either keyboard-configuration setup should handle enabling the zapping > without touching the rest of the layout setup, or it needs to be clearly > documented that users can enable it themselves by appending > "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" to XKBOPTIONS. > There's some info about that change in /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/NEWS.Debian.gz. I think it's more appropriate to have it there rather than in keyboard-configuration, since that's where the change was made, and that's also the package that's getting upgraded from lenny as opposed to a new package. Suggestions for improvement of that text are welcome. Cheers, Julien
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