[PATCH kdrive/ephyr v7 5/9] kdrive: add options to set default XKB properties

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Feb  9, 2016 at 14:23:59 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 10:00:21PM -0200, Laércio de Sousa wrote:
> > Em 8 de fev de 2016 17:54, "Adam Jackson" <ajax at nwnk.net> escreveu:
> > > How are you in a scenario where you can pass these values to Xephyr on
> > > the command line, but can't modify the udev properties?
> > Well... What I really mean is a scenario where neither the Linux distro,
> > nor the keyboard vendor, nor the sysadmin him(her)self provides any udev
> > rules to set XKB properties.
> > 
> > For example, I know there are some distros that ship a set of default udev
> > rules to set XKB properties, but not all of them do it (at least the one I
> > used when I wrote this patch didn't).
> 
> when we introduced the udev config backend we mostly agreed that we weren't
> going to use udev as a config storage (which is how InputClass was
> conceived). Debian ships them because there was some release timing conflict
> where the udev patches where ready but the InputClass bits weren't but aside
> from Debian I don't expect any distro to set the xkb config via udev.
> 
At this point it's not so much a timing conflict as the fact that we use
/etc/default/keyboard to configure the layout for console and X, and
getting information from there into the udev db seems easier/saner than
generating an xorg.conf snippet in /run whenever the actual config
source changes (or whenever X starts, or on boot, or...).  Unless I'm
missing some other way to get that info in the right place?

Cheers,
Julien