Changing XKB options without being root

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:52:50AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 11/5/06, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:21:32PM +1100, Clarence Dang wrote:
> >> Is it possible to show the currently active XKB options?
> >
> >Nope.
> 
> Hmm, what about
> 
> setxkbmap -print
> 
> Although the output is intended for xkbcomp, but it shows me what
> options I currently have.
> 
> $ setxkbmap -print
>        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+ctrl(nocaps)+compose(rwin)"      };

In a roundabout kind of way.  In general, most foo(bar) symbols map to
option foo:bar, but it doesn't always hold true, and can be broken in
surprising ways.

Yay XKB.

Cheers,
Daniel
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