On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:33:25PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Package: console-setup > Version: 1.28 > Severity: normal > Blocks: 508244
Why is this bug blocking #508244? > on upgrade from lenny to squeeze, console-setup will get installed as > dependency of xserver-xorg, and the keyboard layout for X will be read > from /etc/default/console-setup (unless for some reason that plan > doesn't work out, but so far it seems ok). > > In order to make the upgrade path work, and avoid prompting users or > unexpectedly changing their X kbd layout, console-setup will thus need > to read xorg.conf, with something like the following patch. This is > only lightly tested at the moment (thus no patch tag), but I'm filing > this early in case people have comments already :) > Basically, I scan xorg.conf for the first InputDevice section with an > XkbLayout option, and use the options from that section. This is not > quite complete (if you have multiple InputDevice sections with different > layouts, all but the first will be ignored), but should cover most > cases. > > One question though, it looks like it's not possible to set multiple > layouts using console-setup's debconf interface? Is there another way > to preserve this kind of settings when they're set that way in > xorg.conf? Thanks for your work. I will finish it. Console-setup's debconf interface doesn't support multiple layouts (unless the language is non-latin in which case latin+non-latin combination is supported). However console-setup supports any combination of layouts in its configuration file so I think it shouldn't be a problem to read arbitrary configuration from xorg.conf. However I am not sure that it is OK for X to use the configuration of console-setup when the system is upgraded (of course this is OK when X is installed for first time). First, there are some meaningless for the console options, for example XkbGeometry. Does this mean that XKBGEOMETRY has to be added in /etc/default/console-setup? If the configuration of console-setup is used only when X is installed for first time and not when X is only upgraded then it would be unnecessary to support XKBGEOMETRY in /etc/default/console-setup. Suppose also that the user has installed both console-setup and X and she wants different keyboard configurations on the console and in X. In this case after the upgrade the old settings for X will be ignored. Another complication is that the user may have specified XkbSymbols instead of XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions. This also is not supported by console-setup's debconf but can be easily supported in /etc/default/console-setup. If you want I can change the next version of console-setup to be able to read XkbSymbols from xorg.conf and to ignore XKBLAYOUT, XKBVARIANT and XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/console-setup if there is also XKBSYMBOLS. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org