Bug#632970: cannot set keyboard layout for vserver

[Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de>]

On 07/22/11 01:13, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Err, it looks plain wrong to me to configure the keyboard on the server
> side. 

This bug report is not about configuring the keyboard-configuration
package on a remote machine, but on the client, i.e. the host with
the keyboard attached.

> If I want to connect to the same server from another machine
> which has another keyboard layout, the layout is bogus.  So it should be
> configured on the client side, since that's where the keyboard is. And
> you can do it, e.g.
> 
> Xephyr -keybd ephyr,,,xkbmodel=evdev,xkblayout=de :3 -screen 1280x1024 -query vserver1 -terminate
> 


I completely agree, but actually I just want to tell the local(!)
keyboard-configuration package which keyboard is connected. X, Xnest,
Xephyr and all other local XWindow servers could use this information,
which would disburden the user from remembering complex command
line options like

	-keybd ephyr,,,xkbmodel=evdev,xkblayout=de


Regards

Harri