Bug#184337: xlibs-data: user misconfiguration
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:34:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
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> > 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.
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It works, the problem here is that layout is 'us' and thus has no
nodeadkeys variant. As settings are invalid, XKB refuses to change
them and ctrl:nocaps is simply ignored.
Denis
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