Xorg Input Hotplugging

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Oct 18 08:50:50 PDT 2007


Le jeudi 18 octobre 2007 à 11:35 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti a écrit : 
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> >> Yeah, but editing fdi files according to the system settings does not
> >> seem like an acceptable solution for OS distributors, does it?
> > 
> > Why is making an FDI less acceptable than making an xorg.conf?
> 
> Neither is very desiderable.  I'd make the first a read-only file

Please don't

> and ditch the second altogether (one day).
> 
> Per-user input settings such as the keyboard layout and mouse accel
> belong to the desktop session.

Sure, but before the user logs in or customises his settings keyboard
layout is controlled by system defaults, and the system defaults better
match what's printed on the hardware (defaulting to US qwerty won't do
at all).

So the system admin must have the possibility to change system default
keyboard layout.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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