Re: Documenting Keyboard prefs - Layout Options

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Danilo Å egan <danilo gnome org> wrote:

> On Thursday at 9:37, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> 
> > Is there a list of all the group labels in the
> Layout
> > Options tab, or could someone tell me where to
> find
> > them in source, so I don't have to retype them
> all?
> 
> Look at /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml or
> /etc/X11/xkb/xorg.xml (depending on
> your system; it may even be xfree86.xml if you are
> using a really old
> X).
> 
> Then search for "<optionList>".

Fantastic!
For reference, I found them in
/etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml

> Note that this is part of xkeyboard-config[1].  If
> you want to get a
> simpler file without translations, look at
> base.xml.in inside
> xkeyboard-config CVS or tarball.

No need. A quick perl script that would give XML
experts a nightmare, and hey presto, a DocBook
variable list :)

> [1] http://freedesktop.org/Software/xkeyboard-config

That page doesn't exist.

> > And could someone tell me what they all do?
> There's a
> > few that are self-explanatory, but most I don't
> > understand at all.
> 
> There are many of them.  I'll explain basic concepts
> you need to
> understand for most of them.  Note that some of
> these may change
> between xkeyboard-config releases, and their
> availability depends on
> what version of xkeyboard-config or xkbdata is
> installed on your
> system. 
> 
> 

> XKB architecture limits users to 4
> simultaneously loaded
> groups, so you may want to note that. 

That's useful to know. I'll add that to the layouts
tab bit.

>  When you
> load more than one group, and you switch between
> them, LEDs turn on
> and off (so, they don't react to Scroll and Num lock
> anymore).  I
> am not exactly sure how they behave (you need to
> test it).

I'm not sure about which layout is considered the
default one, for which the light does not show.
It looks like it's the top one in the list in the
Layouts tab.
But that has checkboxes that let you specify the
default -- but they don't work.
(Bug filed:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336313 )

Thanks for the list. :)
I'll digest the rest of it later today & I might have
a few more questions before I put it all in the user
guide.



		
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