Re: X keyboard settings on Mac...

[Gianluca Amato <amato@dimi.uniud.it>]

> I'm using X 3.3.36 on potato.  Comparing XF86Config files between my debian
> install and my linuxppc install, I found the following difference:
>
> On debian ppc XF86Config, there is the line:
> XkbKeymap "macintosh"
>
> On linuxppc, there is no such line, instead:
>
> XkbKeycodes "macintosh"
> XbkTypes "default"
> XkbCompat "default"
> XkbSymbols "macintosh/us"
> XkbGeometry "macintosh"
> XkbRules "xfree86"
> XkbModel "pc101"
>
> Does anyone know why they are different and should I make my Debian file
> look more like my linuxppc XF86Config?  Perhaps I should just leave it
> alone, because debian X works fine, following the linux mantra "it works, but
> I don't know why"

As far as I know, there are two alternative methods for specifying the 
keyboard layout with XkB. You can use

XkbRules
XkbModel
XkbVariant
XkbLayout
XkbOptions

or

XkbKeymap
XkbKeycodes
XkbTypes
XkbCompat
XkbSymbols
XkbGeometry

I don't know what happens when you specify options from both groups. 
However, the second set of options is deprecated and I'm not sure that 
XF 4.0.x supports them.

Gianluca