Bug#514464: caps lock led does not show up
Anton Zinoviev, le Thu 02 Jul 2015 19:39:06 +0300, a écrit :
> > Anton, do you have all the informations you need to match that with the
> > xkb data?
>
> But here, I don't understand what matching with xkb data you mean?
I mean matching the LED names from xkb with the LED names from Linux
> I have the following questions:
>
> 1. Is there a packaged Debian kernel with this functionality I can use?
Not yet.
> 2. Suppose the new keyboard layout requires a trigger different from
> kbd-ctrlllock (because the user used KMAP in /etc/default/keyboard or
> installed console-setup-mini). I can echo the new trigger for the
> existing keyboards, but what about the udev rules? Can they change on
> the fly? Or maybe there is some way not to hardcode the trigger in the
> udev rule but read it from a separate file each time the rule activates?
You can just overwrite the udev rule with the new value.
> BTW, at the moment I think it will be best if I write a script kbd_leds
> and propose it for inclusion in the console utilities package 'kbd'.
> Definitely, this is a functionality useful not only for console-setup
> users. Then console-setup will be able to use the combination
> kbd_mode+loadkeys+kbd_leds in order to configure the keyboard.
Ah, yes, that can be useful indeed.
Samuel
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