Hi,
I have an input device/keyboard, which I reconfigured greatly, wrote my own
geometry files, symbols, keycodes and so on.
To make it work with X11 I wanted to write my own rules file for use with the
xf86-input-evdev package. However I had to notice, that it doesn't work,
because when using
Driver "evdev"
In the Config file, the statement
Option "XkbRules" "myfile"
is ignored.
In xf86-input-evdev src/evdev.c I found line 1152 and follwing:
/* sorry, no rules change allowed for you */
xf86ReplaceStrOption(pInfo->options, "xkb_rules", "evdev");
rmlvo.rules = xf86SetStrOption(pInfo->options, "xkb_rules", NULL);
So the code explicitly ignores the option. As a result I have to make my rules
changes to the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev itself, which isn't quite
update stable and a hassle for me.
Is there an explanation, on why exactly the option to specify a different
rule-file is disabled? I guess there must be a good reason, but I can't find
any info on it.
Best Regards
Martin
