On 30/07/18 22:00, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 12:25 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: >> Anyone tried just doing this recently.... >> >> xmodmap -pke > /tmp/keydump >> xmodmap /tmp/keydump >> >> And watch the Xserver hang for quite some time. > Seems to be nearly instantaneous against an Xvfb, but did cause a > noticable hiccup with Xorg. Haven't investigated more closely, so I'd > suspect (in rough order of likelihood): > > a) something super-linear in the number of input devices > b) some weird slow ioctl syncing the X state to the kernel > c) somehow you end up on the "lets spawn xkbcomp" path and the > fork/exec overhead kills you >
Definitely not the last, moving "xkbcomp" from /usr/bin results in the same issue. Alan. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel