Re: x : keyboard not working
On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 01:11:18 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
> David Wright composed on 2017-10-06 20:25 (UTC-0500):
>
> > On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 18:57:31 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> Brian composed on 2017-10-06 23:31 (UTC+0100):
> ...
> >> > 'setxbdmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"' in ~/.xsession is less
> >> > typing and more user-friendly.
>
> >> 1-That was an "as-is" copy from Fedora on a multiboot system, much easier than
> >> typing in an ~/.xsession file that didn't exist. I have no idea whether the
> >> match or layout lines would be necessary in Debian.
>
> >> 2-Keyword: "user-friendly". /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf is global
> >> configuration, vs. user-specific ~/.xsession.
>
> > I don't understand why you want to do it this way. Debian unified
> > /etc/default/keyboard so that the values specified there are used
> > in both the VCs and X.
>
> 1-I was responding to the sole thread focus on user-specific configuration,
> pointing out global configuration as an alternative.
>
> 2-xorg.conf came first, thus, familiarity with configuration via
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf*. Most of the time I need to use it anyway for things
> other than keyboard in Xorg. No need to fix what ain't broke.
>
> 3-man page for /etc/default/keyboard is a redirect to the keyboard man page,
> which like most man pages I find thin on examples.
>
> 4-aversion to that directory name. To me, defaults are things shipped by the
> distro provider.
For many of the items in /etc/default, the provider can't set a
sensible default. keyboard is one of these as the provider can't
possibly know whether your keyboard layout is gb, for example.
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard would make more sense for something
> globally managed by the admin,
Why not make a link to /etc/default then, and have done with it.
> along with keeping shipped defaults in /usr.
That's already the case, isn't it? One normally doesn't alter
files in /usr. For years, I had it mounted readonly.
Cheers,
David.
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