Continuing my thread ;-)
Think I got it working now.
Reverted back to the original ltsp xkb setup.
added XkbRule in build_x4_cfg
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "${XKBRULES:-"xfree86"}"
Option "XkbLayout" "${XKBLAYOUT:-"us"}"
EndSection
That makes it work :-)
I'll try it on a real system tomorrow.
Again this is sarge that uses xfree86.
Is it possible to put setting of XkbRules in lts.conf ?
John
John McMonagle wrote:
>Just discovered that while can now change keyboard setup in kde can no
>longer change sessions
>with ctl-alt-f2 .
>
>Verified that if I revert to the old xkb directory then ctl-alt-f2 works.
>
>My guess its because sarge uses xfree86 and ltsp uses xorg.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>John
>
>
>John McMonagle wrote:
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>>Works for me after I renamed the xkb directory and copied in the files
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>>from my debian sarge install.
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>
>>Have no clue how one one would change ltsp to fix this :-(
>>
>>In the simple case that ltsp is on the application server suppose one
>>could copy the application servers xkb files.
>>
>>In my larger offices I have ltsp loaded on separate servers so that may
>>not work as I probably do not X loaded on the server.
>>
>>As a worse case consider the case where xterminals connect to several
>>application servers that have different X implementations. I do not do
>>this but can imagine situations where one would want to do it.
>>
>>The only way out I can see is to have just one set of xkb files. I have
>>no clue to what extent you can get away with this with various X
>>implementations.
>>
>>John
>>
>>Leonid Dubinsky wrote:
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>>>Ondrej Valousek wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>My LTSP4.2 works fine against FC5
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>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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John McMonagle
IT Manager
Advocap Inc.
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