Bug#708625: man kbd, XLeds option misleading/outdated
Package: xserver-xorg-input-kbd
Version: 1:1.6.1-1+b1
Severity: minor
man kbd claims that Option "XLeds" "ledlist"
lets you select which keyboard leds an external program (like xset) should
be allowed to control.
this option doesn't work at all, and apparently hasn't for half a decade
at least: even with xleds "1 2 3" one only gets to control scroll lock
(led 3).
according to the upstream bug report at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17888
this is a long-dead option because xkb overrides the setting altogether,
and the other two leds are marked as !allowExplicit in the xkb files
(which also indicates how to work around the issue: xkbcomp to dump the
xkb data, remove the !allowExplicit, and xkbcomp to reload the new data).
i think the easiest way to deal with this would be to remove the
paragraph about xleds from the manpage.
regards
az
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
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