Bug#238189: XKB Options Configuration not working ?

[Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:45:26AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> reassign 238189 kcontrol
> thanks

Please do not play pingpong with bugs. Branden, do you have an opionion
about this bug? should we split the setxkbmap stuff and kcontrol
having keyboard options that do nothing?

> > kcontrol uses it, so if setxkbmap has no effect either, it is clearly
> > not a kcnotrol problem
 
> If setxkbmap has no effect, kcontrol should not display those buttons,
> or provide better explanations on what they do.

How could kcontrol know that those options don't work, if setxkbmap
doesnt tell so? The option texts are from a part of kxbd source
prefixed by:

// please don't change/fix messages below
// they're taken from XFree86 as is and should stay the same

(now there is some extra cannon fodder for the xfree86 licence change
 sucks)

It is entirely possible, that command line kcontrol generates,

setxkbmap -option caps:shift

Is incorrect or wrong syntax, but without better manpage of setxkbmap,
I can't really know.

> I do not know what kcontrol is supposed to do, but AFAICT CapsLock can
> not be emulated as on typewriters.  The 'Shift cancels Caps' idiom means
> that Shift+Caps prints lowercase letters (roughly); when Shift is
> released, CapsLock is still locked.

So if those options arent working for you, it is a problem with 
setxkbmap or your keyboard setup. Remember that kcontrol uses 
setxkbmap, and if setxkbmap fails silently, it can't really know 
that the specific options wont work.

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