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Bug#184337: xlibs-data: user misconfiguration



On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> Package: xlibs-data
> Version: 4.3.0-7
> Severity: normal
> Followup-For: Bug #184337
> 
> [Branden Robinson]
> > Well, XKB was seriously revamped and improved in 4.3.0.  It might do
> > the right thing there.  If you get a chance to try out the experimental
> > 4.3.0 packages, please let me know if this bug resolved by them.
> 
> No, the behavior is the same.
> As it was noticed, these settings are invalid.  It looks like previous
> XFree86 versions did ignore these errors and partially modified keyboard
> layout, but the safest option is not to modify the current layout when
> a parameter is wrong, otherwise keyboard might get corrupt and unusable.
> So IMO this bug can be closed.

Well, I think it would be better if XKB permitted ctrl:nocaps to be
specified with nodeadkeys variants.  So I'm inclinded to leave this open
and tagged upstream.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     There's nothing an agnostic can't
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     do if he doesn't know whether he
branden@debian.org                 |     believes in it or not.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Graham Chapman

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