Bug 23470

Summary: core keyboard loses keymap after the last client disconnects
Product: xorg Reporter: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu>
Component: Server/DDX/XephyrAssignee: Matthew Allum <mallum>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: sascha-web-bugs.freedesktop.org
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
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print XGetKeyboardMapping none

Description Tomeu Vizoso 2009-08-23 04:00:36 UTC 
Created attachment 28862 [details] [review]
proposed fix

To reproduce:

- launch Xephyr
- launch attached script, see the keymap printed
- launch script again, see how the keymap is empty

Explanation:

This is because the core keyboard device doesn't reconfigure correctly the keymap, because no default xkb rules are set. The default xkb rules are unset when the devices are uninitialized, but aren't set again on reinitialization.

The patch attached "fixes" the issue, but have no idea how correct it is.

This only applies to 1.6.3, in git HEAD this code has changed completely and this issue shouldn't be present. If this means no release will be made with this fix/workaround, would liek to hear opinions about distros shipping this as a patch.
Comment 1 Tomeu Vizoso 2009-08-23 04:01:59 UTC 
Created attachment 28863 [details]
print XGetKeyboardMapping
Comment 2 Tomeu Vizoso 2009-10-14 11:58:28 UTC 
This bug is not present in 1.7.0.
Comment 3 Julien Cristau 2010-04-24 03:32:50 UTC 
Marking as fixed per comment 2.

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