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

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:36:33PM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I don't think there's any need to force console and X keyboard
> configuration to be in sync. They have been separate since the dawn of
> time, with X's configuration simply being initialised from the console
> configuration performed in the installer and then left to go its own
> way.
>
> I think it would be fine to continue this tradition (arguably imperfect
> though it is) and just copy over console configuration from
> /etc/default/console-setup to HAL once when the hal package is
> configured.

Actually, as Bryce mentioned, it's already deployed in a way as we 
discussed in December. HAL ships 10-x11-keymap.fdi which calls a script 
(debian-setup-keyboard) that uses hal-set-property to set the values when 
starting HAL. Fedora had a patch for h-s-p which made it work, finally..

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