Bug#561185: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ctrl: Re: xkb-data: support custom layouts

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Package: xkb-data
Version: 2.5.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #561185

Hello,

so how are custom layouts supposed to work?

It looks to me like you need to modify the rules file when adding a
layout but that file is not conffile and is not extensible.

Or is extending that file just undocumented?

I have a weird keyboard for which I want to remap a few keys.

Presumably I could make an udev rule that matches the keyboard and
amends /etc/default/keyboard. But what do I amend?

I want layout and options as specified by the user so the only part I
can possibly replace is model. But without rules model is totally
meaningless. You can use symbol file references in layout directly
perhaps but options need rules too.

Thanks

Michal

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev (from xkb-data package)
debsums: changed file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/altwin (from xkb-data package)
debsums: changed file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ctrl (from xkb-data package)