Bug#363229: xserver-xorg: No way to set the XKB data directory
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:06:28AM +0300, Shai Berger wrote:
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> 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?
As explained in README.Debian, this XKBPATH variable is a Debian
extension which had been added to ease testing local changes in XKB
files, it has not been reported upstream.
As -xkbdir option is dropped, a simple solution would indeed be to
let X honor XKBPATH too, but I do not know how yet.
Denis
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