-xkbmap removal (Re: CVS Update: xserver (branch: trunk))

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 08:35:53AM -0600, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> >Log message:
> >  Remove -xkbmap argument.
> 
> Why? While I haven't used it recently (so it may have been broken -- 
> which could be a good reason to remove it), i was a convenient way to 
> setup the keyboard layout for X servers running without a configuration 
> file. Is there any alternative that I missed?

Good point about servers without config files, but I think we should fix
that a little better.  I guess setxkbmap would be better, but failing
that, a command-line option to set the layout by RMLVO would be better
than passing in a pre-defined keymap.
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