[PATCH 2/2] xkb: if the keymap failed to compile, load the default keymap instead.

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:52:26PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:34:32PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > We really need symbols, compat and types for a sensible keymap.
> > 
> > Try this in your xorg.conf.d snippets for all keyboards:
> >         Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> >         Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> > 
> > us(nodeadkeys) doesn't exist so xkbcomp provides everything but the symbols
> > map. We say we want everything but don't _need_ anything, the server happily
> > gives us a keymap with every key mapped to NoSymbol. This in turn isn't what
> > we want after all.
> > 
> > So instead, require symbols, compat and types from the keymap and if that
> > fails, load the default keymap instead. If that fails too, all bets are off.
> 
> I think you also need XkmKeyNamesMask and XkmVirtualModsMask to be
> useful.

amended, thanks.

Cheers,
  Peter