Hi Leonid,

This is really great news!
Thanks for investigating this.

Thanks,
Rasmus Ory Nielsen


ons, 07 06 2006 kl. 03:34 -0400, skrev Leonid Dubinsky:
> Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> 
> > My LTSP4.2 works fine against FC5
> 
> Ondrej, thank you for your reply - I was starting to worry. I tried the
> change you suggested, but it did not work. Motivated by the fact that
> keyboard switcher works for you, I decided to investigate further. See
> [SOLUTION] below.
> 
> First sign of problems I saw was: when I try to add a layout to the
> keyboard switcher, a preview of the keyboard does not work, and I get an
> error in the xorg.log on the terminal:
> 
> (EE) Error loading keymap /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/server-0_0.xkm
> 
> I found the following in the man page for setxkbmap:
> 
> USING WITH xkbcomp
> If you have an Xserver and a client shell running on different comput-
> ers  and  XKB  configuration files sets on those machines are different
> you can get problems  specifying  a  keyboard  map  by  model,  layout,
> options  names.   The  thing  is the setxkbcomp converts these names to
> names of XKB configuration files according to files  that  are  on  the
> client side computer.  Then it sends the file names to the server where
> the xkbcomp has to compose a complete keyboard map  using  files  which
> the  server  has.   Thus  if the sets of files differ significantly the
> names that the setxkbmap generates can be unacceptable  on  the  server
> side.   You  can  solve  this problem running the xkbcomp on the client
> side too.  With the -print option setxkbmap just prints the files names
> in  an  appropriate  format  to its stdout and this output can be piped
> directly to the xkbcomp input. For example, a command
>        setxkbmap us -print | xkbcomp - $DISPLAY
> makes both step on the same (client) machine and loads a  keyboard  map
> into the server.
> 
> On my Fedora Core 5 server, "setxkbmap us -print" produces:
> 
> xkb_keymap {
>       xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
>       xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
>       xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
>       xkb_symbols   { include "pc(pc105)+us"  };
>       xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"     };
> };
> 
> Attempt to run this through xkbdcomp on the terminal does, indeed, fail.
> 
> It turns out that the way xkb files are packaged on FC5 and LTSP are
> different. For example, symbols/pc is a directory on LTSP, but a file
> on FC5. I saw some messages in the Fedora lists that mentioned such a
> change between FC5 Test2 and Final.
> 
> [SOLUTION]
> I replaced all the subdirectories and *.dir files in xkb in the LTSP's
> tree with their analogues from the FC5 install. Keyboard switcher works.
> This is not a real solution: it is ugly, breaks LTSP upgrade, can break
> when OS is upgraded on the server etc., but it will have to do until
> LTSP developers provide a better one :)
> 
> Now I do not understand why does it work for you...
> 


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