| Summary: | setxkbmap doesn't recognise multiple keyboards | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Tim Nelson <wayland> |
| Component: | App/setxkbmap | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | daniel, e.a.b.piel, peter.hutterer |
| Version: | 7.4 (2008.09) | Keywords: | love |
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | 2011BRB_Reviewed | ||
| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | 21669 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
I'm playing with the new "-query" option, and it seems I'm hit by the same bug. Which ever device I specify with "-device", it's just the latest RLMVO applied which are displayed. |
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My original post to the xorg list (with responses by Peter Hutterer) was: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > One thing I just noticed is that the root window property for XKB only > contains the information for one keyboard. When I run setxkbmap -print, the > device parameter doesn't make it read the settings for that device, it simply > relies on this property, which is presumably the most recent one set: > > _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105+inet", "ang,el", "", \ > "grp:switch,grp:scroll_toggle,grp_led:scroll" > > Should that somehow represent multiple keyboards? yes, it should. but can't at the same time. basically this property has been around for long enough that we can't change it. for the multi-keyboard case we should just introduce a new property. patches appreciated of course. note that you will need to modify setxkbmap as well, xkbcomp already takes a device parameter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTH