On Tue, 5 May 2009 14:57:23 +0300 Rogutės Sparnuotos <rogutes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a bug with xkbcomp and it has been reported upstream long ago. > There is a redhat/fedora bug report [1] (which has been closed, but > the fix didn't work) and a freedesktop.org bug report [2], both > assigned to Peter Hutterer, who seems rather busy (and the bug seems > rather difficult to track down)... > > I've seen somebody mention that one could disable the computation of > keyboard geometry and the bug would be avoided, but I'm just trying to > avoid using setxkbmap for the time being. > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469572 > [2] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20081 Thanks for the useful information, Rogutės! Probably instead of using setxkbmap in shell script I'll write a simple C program using x11 libs (as e.g. xfce xkb plugin does). Cheers, Sergey