tag 238778 + help thanks On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:13:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > If someone from d-i could give this bug (#238778) a quick briefing on > > what d-i keyboard layout info is available, we'll do our best here. > > A system installed with d-i (and with base-config still installed) will > have a debian-installer/keymap item in the debconf database. The value > of that item will be the keymap the user chose, something like "us" or > "dvorak", or "de-latin1-nodeadkeys". > > To map this to a keymap from /usr/share/keymaps/ and set up the console > keymap, we use this method: > > db_get debian-installer/keymap > KEYMAP=$(find /usr/share/keymaps/ -name "$RET.kmap*") > > if [ ! -z "$KEYMAP" ]; then > install-keymap $KEYMAP >/dev/null || true > fi
I see. So, basically, d-i is just using console-data's schema straight out of the box with no abstraction layer on top. This is not ideal for supporting X keyboard configuration as well. > I have no idea what will be feasable to do with X keymaps. A gigantic mapping table, I guess. :( -- G. Branden Robinson | The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered a criminal statute it [EMAIL PROTECTED] | did not like. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John Dean
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