[ubuntu-x] Using console-setup's keyboard setup for HAL and xorg input-hotplug

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 13:46:07 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>
>> Colin and I had a discussion yesterday regarding the idea of reusing the
>> console-setup keyboard settings with the xorg keyboard input-hotplug
>> stuff in HAL.  The idea is that this script would be run from
>> xorg-server.postinst.
>>
> AIUI these settings could be useful for something other than
> xorg-server (at least in theory), wouldn't it make sense to run this in
> hal.postinst instead?

Discussed this briefly with Martin Pitt, who is the HAL maintainer in 
Ubuntu. The postinst is somewhat problematic, because it would mean 
reconfiguring the package whenever the settings have been changed. So, he 
proposed to run it in the hal initscript. Hacky, but would fix that issue.


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