Bug#469961: Curious and un-intuitive differences between setkbmap x y '' z and setkbmap -layout x -variant y -option '' -option z
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 1:7.2.ds2-2
Severity: wishlist
I notice that, with ctrl:nocaps already loaded,
setxkbmap us,us ,dvorak '' grp:caps_toggle
failed to remove the existing ctrl:nocaps option -- that is, the Caps
Lock key was treated as a control key, not a layout switch key.
However,
setxkbmap -layout us,us -variant ,dvorak -option '' -option grp:caps_toggle
behaved as documented, i.e. removing ctrl:nocaps and thus allowing the
Caps Lock key to toggle (between qwerty and dvorak).
The manpage seems to suggest that users can omit the -layout,
-variant, and -option [...] arguments, but this doesn't seem to extend
to the -option '' argument.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.2.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 2:1.0.0-4 X11 Font Services library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.3~rc2-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.4-1 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxss1 1:1.1.2-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 event trapping extension libra
ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii libxv1 1:1.0.3-1 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.2-1 X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
xbase-clients recommends no packages.
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