Re: prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:20:05AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 12/02/2012 10:57 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>system-config-keyboard should do this:
> >>
> >>      1. Get the old settings: cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
> >>      2. Set the new settings: su -c 'localectl set-x11-keymap <layout>
> >>         [<model>] [<variant>] [<options>]'
> >>      3. Remove the old configuration file: su -c
> >>         'rm /etc/sysconfig/keyboard'
> >>
> >>or at least warning that we should do something new like this .
> >http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/systemd.git/commit/?h=f18&id=0969ad24898347919865e9298fa01e19cec98649
> >already attempts to do some kind of automatic conversion.  If that is
> >insufficient, please file bugs against systemd.
> 
> It seems that the virtual console layout is migrated ok, but the x11
> part is not. This is what I get on my two upgraded F18 boxes:
> 
> [root@turre ~]# localectl
>    System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>        VC Keymap: fi
>       X11 Layout: n/a
> [root@turre ~]#
> 
> The "n/a" part is the "problem" as it falls back to US keyboard.
> localectl manual says both set-keymap and set-x11-keymap apply to
> both the keymaps unless --no-convert is specified, but that doesn't
> seem to happen in practise:
> 
> [root@turre ~]# localectl set-keymap fi
> [root@turre ~]# localectl
>    System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>        VC Keymap: fi
>       X11 Layout: n/a
> [root@turre ~]# localectl set-x11-keymap fi
> [root@turre ~]# localectl
>    System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>        VC Keymap: fi-latin1
>       X11 Layout: fi
> [root@turre ~]# localectl set-keymap fi
> [root@turre ~]# localectl
>    System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>        VC Keymap: fi
>       X11 Layout: fi
>        X11 Model: pc105
>      X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
> 
> It's a bit bizarre: set-keymap doesn't seem to find "fi" as the
> closest matching keyboard for x11 (it probably should),
> set-x11-keymap considers "fi-latin1" to be the closest matching
> keymap for "fi", but in this specific order its possible to get both
> set to "fi". Only it now adds additional model + options there,
> whatever the reason.

pc105 is just the standard model that XKB uses. and the option is there to
get zapping behaviour when the server is started (until that option is
overwritten by a desktop environment or other client)

Cheers,
   Peter
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