Bug#560756: marked as done (x11-xkb-utils: setxkbmap has a limit of 4 layouts)
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and subject line Re: Bug#560756: x11-xkb-utils: setxkbmap has a limit of 4 layouts
has caused the Debian Bug report #560756,
regarding x11-xkb-utils: setxkbmap has a limit of 4 layouts
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: x11-xkb-utils: setxkbmap has a limit of 4 layouts
- From: Matias D'Ambrosio <angasule@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:49:50 -0300
- Message-id: <20091211224950.24197.32064.reportbug@tabr>
Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.4+3
Severity: normal
setxkbmap has a limit of 4 layouts, if more than 4 layouts are sent to
it on the command line it behaves erratically, ignoring the last command
most of the time.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages x11-xkb-utils depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.3.4-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.5-1 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii x11-common 1:7.4+4 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
x11-xkb-utils recommends no packages.
x11-xkb-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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- To: 560756-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#560756: x11-xkb-utils: setxkbmap has a limit of 4 layouts
- From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:05:48 +0200
- Message-id: <YmK2PGWFaor0hM10@jcristau-z4>
- In-reply-to: <20091211224950.24197.32064.reportbug@tabr>
- References: <20091211224950.24197.32064.reportbug@tabr>
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 07:49:50PM -0300, Matias D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Package: x11-xkb-utils
> Version: 7.4+3
> Severity: normal
>
> setxkbmap has a limit of 4 layouts, if more than 4 layouts are sent to
> it on the command line it behaves erratically, ignoring the last command
> most of the time.
>
Closing this old bug, the limit to 4 groups is part of the xkb protocol,
which can't change. Ideally setxkbmap would deal with invalid config
attempts better, but any change would have to happen upstream, and these
tools are in deep maintenance mode nowadays.
Cheers,
Julien
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