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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] No /usr/bin/kxkb in KDE 4.5
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:38:37
Message-Id: AANLkTi=6JXSZoLnXmz4y_trRUqvTF74t0mcHfyEAeK8b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] No /usr/bin/kxkb in KDE 4.5 by Jens Rutschmann
1 On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Jens Rutschmann
2 <Jens.Rutschmann@×××.info> wrote:
3 > Hi all,
4 >
5 > I recently updated to KDE 4.5 (from 3.5.10) and now I'm facing several small
6 > problems while trying to get my environment back.
7 >
8 > One problem seems to be that /usr/bin/kxkb is no longer installed with the
9 > systemsettings package. And I cannot select "evdev-driven keyboard" in the
10 > keyboard layout settings in systemsettings / kcontrol.
11 >
12 > Also the "keyboard service" or whatever it is called in english cannot be
13 > started in the "system services" section. When I try to start it manually it
14 > complains about "kxkb" being missing.
15 >
16 > Does anyone know what package contains kxkb in 4.5 ? On another machine I
17 > still have have 4.4 installed and there it is installed with the
18 > systemsettings package.
19
20 Starting with KDE 4.5.0 "keyboard" & "kxkb" modules were merged into a
21 new kcm_keyboard service. It is part of kde-base/systemsettings
22
23 From the readme "This is new project to replace keyboard (kcmmisc) and
24 kxkb to manage keyboard harware configuration and layouts."
25
26 Sorry I don't have any more info than that.

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] No /usr/bin/kxkb in KDE 4.5 Jens Rutschmann <Jens.Rutschmann@×××.info>