On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote:

> > How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you
> > tell it to use a particular keyboard layout?  
> 
> 19:18:09 steph...@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $ cat 61-x11-input.rules 
> SUBSYSTEM!="input", GOTO="x11_input_end" 
> ACTION!="add", GOTO="x11_input_end" 
> 
> KERNEL=="event*", ENV{x11_driver}="evdev" 
> KERNEL=="event*", ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=="1 
> 
> ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}=="?*", ENV{xkblayout}="fr" 
> 
> LABEL="x11_input_end"
> =======

Interesting, but it seems more complex that a simple stanza
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Using udev rules for something that will only be
used by one application adds unnecessary complication, IMO. If only X
will use the information, I'd prefer to put in in the X configuration
directory.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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think.(Horace Walpole)

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