On Thu Mar 10 15:12:16 2011, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:18:38PM +0100, J?rgen Grahn wrote: > > > > (BTW, my immediate problem was to get my own keymap in X11. I solved > > it by bringing in my old Lenny xorg.conf and disabling the three > > xorg.conf settings which cause the keyboard settings there to be ignored. > > My point was to ask you why the following comment is not sufficient: > > # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same # > values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options # in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > > According to it you can simply copy your customized layout from > xorg.conf to /etc/default/keyboard so (at least this was my intention) no > additional reading of documentation is required.
It's probably sufficient for normal usage (except I'd like to see it in a man page). But my customization includes a new XkbLayout, i.e. new and modified files under /usr/share/X11/xkb/. That made me wonder if console-setup really used these files, or if it supported a subset of the X11 settings by somehow emulating them. It seemed unlikely that a console-only Debian installation would have a dependency on X11. When I found the ckbcomp(1) man page, it confirmed that /usr/share/X11/xkb/ is used -- but finding it took some detective work, as I described earlier. I hope this makes my problem clearer. BR, /Jörgen -- // Jörgen Grahn | mot du jour: digitata \X/ <[email protected]> | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
