setxkbmap crashes whole xorg-server

[Tobias Jakobi]

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:26:56PM +0200, Tobias Jakobi wrote:
>> I just wanted to use setxkbmap to change my keyboard layout (I need to 
>> change from DE to US prior to starting wine because of some nasty bug 
>> with some games) and it crashed the entire X server.
> 
> ouch. what was the exact command you ran?
> 
>> The second thing is: Can I somehow change the layout using another tool? 
>> I was under the impression that xinput should do that now. But that 
>> doesn't seem to be the case. At least it doesn't show any layout 
>> property with list-props.
> 
> xkb isn't exposed as device property, so xinput doesn't do anything here.
> there's setxkbmap and xkbcomp which are the main tools to load xkb
> descriptions.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Peter
> 
Hi Peter,

just calling setxkbmap without any options does it.
I'm using version 1.0.4, since this seems to be the stable (and also the 
latest) version.

I did recompile setxkbmap against latest xorg-server git, but that 
doesn't improve the situation.

Greets,
Tobias