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

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:59:54PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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?

On Fedora systemd's localectl writes out a 00-keyboard.conf snippet. That is
read by localed on boot and made available in dbus' org.freedesktop.locale.
afaict run-time changes to the file directly arent' reflected in dbus
though.

so summary: yeah, you'd have to be doing exactly that if you want to drop
the udev rules :)
 
Cheers,
  Peter