Package: xkb-data Version: 0.9-4 Priority: wishlist Are the possible keyboard layouts, variants and options provided by XKB documented somewhere?
After about half an hour of searching on my Debian etch system, I finally found the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst which contains a nice (if a bit brief) list of the variants and options. (I assume that is a complete list, since it looks as if it is automatically generated.) On hindsight, I perhaps should have started by reading /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/README.config.gz which says: 2.4 Basic Global Options See rules/*.lst files. which, I guess, is a reference to the above file - but the full path would be quite helpful, especially for a less technical user... Would it be possible to add the full path to the above text? Or perhaps to README.Debian if changing this (I think) upstream file is a problem? It would also be nice if keyboard layout-related manual pages had some kind of reference to where the possible settings are documented. Perhaps adding the file name "/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst" to the SEE ALSO section of some keyboard-related manual pages like keyboard(4) and setxkbmap(1) would be helpful. Another idea would be to automatically generate a manual page out of /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst (or from where that is generated), and then linking to that from the above manual pages. (This would perhaps be cleaner since most other X server options, like the options for various graphics cards, are documented in manual pages, and it would solve the "full path vs. unchanged upstream file" problem.) Hmm, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" appears to give me a list of a couple of the possible options and variants - perhaps it could also say that the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst (or the autogenerated manual page I suggested) contains a full list? -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
