Bug#206173: Keyboard option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" not working in XF86Config-4

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:55, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> 
> I use multiple keymaps since I write cyrillic mails from time to time.
> With XFree86 4.3, I use the multiple-keymap list feature as showed in
> their examples (/etc/X11/xkb/README.config), see config below.
> 
> However, pressing Alt-Shift does not anything right after the X start.
> The switch function only works when I execute setxkbmap manually,
> 
> setxkbmap -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
> 
> After running it, I can roll trough the keymap list with Alt-Shift as
> expected. I remember that I did not need to execute this command when I
> used the first packages of Daniel Stone's series, it did not work with
> his latest builds and does not work with pre1v1 now.

[...]

> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"

(BTW, heads up to XSF: the keyboard manpage is still missing)

> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
> 	Option		"XkbModel"	"ps105"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"de,ru"
> 	Option		"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys,phonetic"
> 	Option		"grp:alt_shift_toggle"

What if you make this

	Option		"XkbOptions"	"grp:alt_shift_toggle"

? (dexconf bug?)

> EndSection


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