Is HandleSpecialKeys expected to work when xkeyboard is disabled?

Derek Fawcus dfawcus+lists-fdo-xorg at employees.org
Sat Dec 12 08:04:14 PST 2009


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:09:44PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> VT switching is handled by XKB for the evdev driver. You need to use the
> kbd driver (up to 1.3.2), which used to have it's own special key handling.

Aha,
  thanks.

  I guess the documentation could be updated to make that clear (unless I
simply managed to miss it).

  Since I also want to use evdev,  I guess I'll have to compile a special
version of it which supports VT switching despite having XKB disabled.

/phx



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