Hi all,
I was taking a look at the Ubuntu way of doing things. hal has a policy
script that reads the keymap and options set by the console-setup package. I
thought it was quite a neat way of doing things.
Whilst Debian does have the console-setup package, my guess is that many
users probably stick to the default console-tools package installed as part
of the base.
Would it be acceptable for a hal helper to read the selected values from the
debconf values for console-data? Right now, the easiest way I see (and the
least documented) is to put the keyboard configuration into
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, i.e.:
<!-- gb keyboard layout -->
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
</match>
</device>
Surely an automatic configuration would be preferred? Would such a helper be
of any use?
rob.
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