[xkb] Patch for a new keyboard layout

[Kristján Rúnarsson]

Hi,
and thanks for your help. If I understand you correctly…

1) I download the xkeyboard-config sources here:

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/src/

or from the git repository

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/

I take it using the Git repository is preferable to the tar-ball or the CVS repo?

2) Then I modify 

xkeyboard-config/rules/base.xml.in

…and create a patch against the original.

3) Next I modify:

xkeyboard-config/symbols/is

...and again create a patch against the original.

4) Submit bug report to:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org

using the 'xkeyboard‑config' product and attach the patches.

5) My keyboard layout will eventually find it's way into Fedora and friends without any further action on my part and will be detectable by the wizards in Gnome/KDE and pals?

Cheers
KR


On Jun 13, 2013, at 18:21 , wettstein509 at solnet.ch wrote:

>> Are these xml/lst files auto-generated in which case it should be enough to just submit a patch for /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/is or do I have to submit a patch to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ for all of the above files?
> 
> The files are generated.  In the source code for xkeyboard-config, you
> add you new options to rules/base.xml.in.
> 
> Andreas
> _______________________________________________
> xorg-devel at lists.x.org: X.Org development
> Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel
> Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel