Bug#632970: cannot set keyboard layout for vserver

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Julien Cristau, le Sat 23 Jul 2011 23:43:52 +0200, a écrit :
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:35:19 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Julien Cristau, le Fri 22 Jul 2011 20:21:00 +0200, a écrit :
> > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 15:57:11 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > So it'd be a matter of xserver-xephyr defaulting to the underlying X
> > > > server layout,
> > > 
> > > Maybe.  Except there's no reliable way to do that.
> > 
> > Actually I don't see why. Doesn't Xephyr use the underlying X server
> > keycodes? It'd be a matter of copying the current X layout into the
> > Xephyr server.
> > 
> Right.  But InitKeyboardDeviceStruct takes rmlvo, not a complete map.  I
> guess you could run XkbGetMap on the host server and the equivalent of
> XkbSetMap on the guest; that might prove messy…

Well, maybe we can just forward upstream and let them decide what they
think.

Samuel