On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:20:25PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > I don't understand this; clearly if I have to use an azerty keyboard > layout I'm screwed whether or not you set it on the system or just for > my user. How is this different from you setting azerty as the default > in the Xorg conf file? It proves that keyboard is a system setting. > > Oh and perhaps with the video at a resolution your monitor can't handle. > > At least with modern monitors it's my understanding the X server knows > what the monitor supports (DDC or something?). So the system could > prevent a user from changing their preference to something invalid. > Thus it becomes a preference rather than a setting. It remains a system setting (or the range does), and that needs to be kept by Kudzu attached to the hardware even when the hardware vanishes for a while.