Bug 82440
| Summary: | Handle non-US keymaps that need US keymaps loaded as well | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Component: | redhat-config-keyboard | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | aleksey, katzj, milan.kerslager, msf |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-25 14:29:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Brent Fox
2003-01-22 05:15:23 UTC
This applies for anaconda too. It will require changes to the keyboard_models.py in rhpl. msf, katzj: just so you know, I'll have to make this change to
keyboard_models.py. I'll try not to break anything that the installer uses, but
we'll need to test it.
I think putting a nested list of the required X keymaps inside the
self.modelDict will work pretty well. For example, the line:
'ru' : [_('Russian'), 'ru', 'pc105', ''],
will look like:
'ru' : [_('Russian'), ['ru', 'us'], 'pc105', ''],
That way, we can write an XF86Config file that looks like:
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
So, of that list, we only have entries for bg, el, mk, ru, and ua in
keyboard_models.py. I have not added the other keymaps to this list because I'm
not sure of which console keymaps that they use.
I had to add a column to self.modelDict in keyboard_models.py to specify the
XkbOptions field for these keyboards, which is "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
So now the line for ru looks like:
'ru' : [_('Russian'), 'ru,us', 'pc105', '', 'grp:ctrl_shift_toggle' ],
rhpl-0.79-1 and redhat-config-keyboard-1.0.3-1 should fix this issue. What about upgrades? Will they result in broken X configuration? I understand the difficulties with trying to auto-fix an existing config, but it might be a good idea to at least mention it in release notes - along the lines "If you are upgrading from a previous version of Red Hat and you have your XWindow Sytem configured to use an international keyboard layout, you will need to re-generate your configuration (use redhat-config-keyboard or redhat-coonfig-xfree86) ." I agree it should be in release notes. I disagree however with bfox that it should be handled by XFree86. Having some type of "upgrade XFree86 from release A to release B" script might be useful, but cramming it into XFree86.spec is a recipe for unmaintainable disaster. I'm not sure what the best solution is, just that I don't have the time resources to implement it. see comments https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79287#c21 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79287#c22. redhat-config-keyboard is OK, please fix anaconda. There is a stack of 64 bugs that have been in Modified state for a long period of time. I am closing these as Rawhide now. If you find that the issue is not fixed, please reopen this report. |