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From: "Stéphane Guedon" <stephane@××××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:59:27
Message-Id: 201007140958.10725.stephane@22decembre.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard by Neil Bothwick
1 Le lundi 12 juillet 2010 10:31:34, Neil Bothwick a écrit :
2 > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
3 > > > How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you
4 > > > tell it to use a particular keyboard layout?
5 > >
6 > > 19:18:09 stephane@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $ cat 61-x11-input.rules
7 > > SUBSYSTEM!="input", GOTO="x11_input_end"
8 > > ACTION!="add", GOTO="x11_input_end"
9 > >
10 > > KERNEL=="event*", ENV{x11_driver}="evdev"
11 > > KERNEL=="event*", ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=="1
12 > >
13 > > ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}=="?*", ENV{xkblayout}="fr"
14 > >
15 > > LABEL="x11_input_end"
16 > > =======
17 >
18 > Interesting, but it seems more complex that a simple stanza
19 > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Using udev rules for something that will only be
20 > used by one application adds unnecessary complication, IMO. If only X
21 > will use the information, I'd prefer to put in in the X configuration
22 > directory.
23
24 I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without
25 relation to udev).
26
27 But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user !
28
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdm & french keyboard Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>