Bug#363229: xserver-xorg: No way to set the XKB data directory

[Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>]

On Tuesday, April 18 2006 22:59, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:35:37PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:40:31AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:02:12AM +0300, Shai Berger wrote:
> > > > Then I tried the other method referred to in xkb-data's
> > > > README.Debian, that of passing a -xkbdir to the server. The server
> > > > did not recognize this flag (and gave me a list of the flags it did
> > > > recognize...).
> > >
> > > I removed most of the XKB command-line options upstream.
>
> It's not for security reasons, it's because I don't believe it has any
> place on the command line.  Config file, maybe, but why command line?

Well, I'm not an X Server developer, but I can see the usefulness of 
controlling the xkb directory in the invocation of the X Server -- for trying 
things out, or for user-specific features.

As things are documented, this should be doable without the command-line 
option -- via the environment variable, that is,

$ startx -- :3 -xkbdir XXX

should be equivalent to 

$ XKBPATH=XXX startx -- :3

And the way I see things, it is indeed "equivalent" -- the environment 
variable is ignored. Did you remove this also?

If so, how can I make the X Server use a different xkb directory?

If not, why not? The same reasoning should apply as for the command-line 
option.

Thanks,
	Shai.