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Bug#245065: xbase-clients: add an option to let setxkbmap ignore current server settings



On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:28:43AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> Hi Branden,
> 
> I wrote:
>  One problem with latest XKB bugreports (changes in X 4.3) is that we
>  do not know if xlibs has to be blamed, or if other apps are modifying
>  XKB settings.  In order to reproduce the reported bugs, I slightly
>  hacked setxkbmap.c to ignore current server settings.  If a -noserver
>  command-line flag is added (patch attached), we could ask submitters
>  to run a setxkbmap command and determine if this bug belongs to xlibs.
> and you requested a bugreport in
>      http://lists.debian.org/debian-x-0404/msg00796.html
> I would like to read your comments before patching documentation ;)

I'd call the option and local variable "ignoreserver" instead of
"noserver".  ("noserver" could lead to thoughts like as "What?  I don't
*have* an X server?  What am I doing running an X client, then?")

Other than that, I don't see any problems.

Thanks a lot for working on this!

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    If you make people think they're
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    thinking, they'll love you; but if
branden@debian.org                 |    you really make them think, they'll
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    hate you.            -- Don Marquis

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