On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:26 PM, cheater00 . <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Jerome Leclanche <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think an x11-related list might get you some better answers. However >> as it happens I made my own xkb layout a while ago. The bad news is I >> never quite figured out how to install it as a separate layout, so >> what I do is actually replace symbols/us with my layout. > > thanks, I'll post this to xorg and separately xorg-devel. I'm not sure > which one applies. > >> I don't think you're supposed to edit anything in X11/xkb/rules > > From what I've read on the internet, some documents recommend adding > an xkb_keymap declaration in keymap/. Those files, if you look at > them, explicitly specify the types (or compats, not sure) that are > being used, so should work. Compiling by hand with xkbcomp should > work, but I don't want to do that, I want the OS to ingest the files > itself, and show them in the Gnome Keyboard Properties (actually I use > MATE, but that's exactly the same). > > Then some documents say that was obsoleted by (non-xml) files in > rules/, e.g. rules/evdev and rules/evdev.lst, and then some say that > was obsoleted by xml files in rules/. You can see xkbcomp still > operates with xkb_keymap as the internal format. I assume this should > now be generated from the xml files somehow. This is what Gnome uses > as I understand. > >> the package manager ships all the files in there and nothing would survive >> an xkb-common upgrade. To add insult to injury, xkb does not look in >> $XDG_*_HOME dirs so you cannot install your keyboard layout locally. > > I have advice to the contrary: I've been using the layout this way - > having edited evdev.xml - for years now and it's worked through all > the package updates I got; not sure if anything updated xkb at all, > probably not. It also survived an upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 13.04. > And even if it hadn't - I can always just type sudo ./install.py and > that's it!
When you say "using the layout this way", what do you mean? I was talking about editing files in ~/.local/share. > >> The very unscalable advice I got a few years ago when asking an xkb >> dev was "Just send us your layout and we'll add it upstream". I'm not >> sure if the situation has improved since - if it has, please let me >> know about it :) > > Do you remember who that was and where it was? Maybe I could email them. > > Thanks! That was the x11 development channel on Freenode. J. Leclanche _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
