On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:50:27PM +0200, Mike Eriksen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Alan Coopersmith > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike Eriksen wrote: > >> Oh no, making the precompiled keymaps is simple enough, the problem is > >> how to use them. With Xorg 6.8 and 6.9 you just added the -kbm option > >> to X, but that option has been removed with more recent version. > >> > >> So I have a nice xkm file, but no means to use it :-) > >> > >> For a normal distro it wouldn't really matter to use xkb in stead, but > >> when you run off a RAM disk on primitive hardware, you can't really > >> afford to waste at couple of MB just to get the right keymap. > > > > Can't you also use xkbcomp to load the .xkm file, in .xinitrc or similar? > > > > From the man page it appears that you should be able to do > > xkbcomp foo.xkm :0 > > No, that will create foo.xkm from the setup on 0: - not force it into use.
xkbcomp <input> <output>, so if you provide an xkm file as input it loads it to the output - in this case the display specified. If this doesn't work that'd be a rather bad bug. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
