Bug#364489: marked as done (xkbcomp looks for files in the wrong directory)
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and subject line Bug#364489: xkbcomp looks for files in the wrong directory
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Package: xbase-clients
Version: 1:7.0.0-4
Severity: normal
Hi,
(filing this on xbase-clients rather than xorg-xserver-core, since
according to strace, xkbcomp is the thing that actually looks at the
files)
Since the move to X11R7, I had issues with my laptop's keyboard (an
Apple PowerBook). Being lazy (and not in the vicinity of another system
to fix the laptop, should I fuck up the keyboard), I didn't check it out
until today.
My X keyboard definition looks like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
Option "XkbLayout" "wouter"
EndSection
Which should mean that X would look for a keymap with the "macintosh"
geometry, and the "wouter" layout. Indeed, with previous versions of X,
and my keymap in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/wouter, this used to
work correctly; however, for it to work with current versions of X, it
only works if I put my modified keymap in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/wouter, rather than in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh_vndr/wouter, as I would expect.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.ISO-8859-15@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 2:1.0.0-3 X11 Font Services library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.4.1-0.4 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.2-3 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 event trapping extension libra
ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii libxv1 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.0-3 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.0-4 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.0.10 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
xbase-clients recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:13:36AM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:12:34PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 08:55:59PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > Closing as invalid, since this is a user configuration issue.
> >
> > Then at the very minimum this should be documented. Rather than having a
> > non-working "macintosh_vndr" directory, it should either work, or be
> > documented that it needs to be enabled somehow (by an option in
> > xorg.conf, I guess?), or be removed.
>
> It *is* documented. That it existed previously was not documented, but
> in the rules file.
Okay, I probably missed it, then.
> If you
...?
> > A directory on disk with keymaps that cannot ever possibly be used is a
> > bug in my book.
>
> What? Which directory?
>
> I'm not going to bother re-closing it: if you want to keep it open, good
> luck. All I'm saying, is that you made local modifications to XKB, and
> that was what failed.
... because I didn't fix my rules file? Okay, that's as good an
explanation as any.
> Everything else works fine. Your mail shows a lack of understanding
> of XKB
Hmm, that wouldn't be impossible.
> (yes, it is hideously underdocumented), so arguing semantics about it
> probably isn't the best idea.
Good enough for me. Closing the bug.
--
Fun will now commence
-- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4
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