Ubuntu
console-setup package

no way to specify alternate xkb rules in setupcon

Bug #139712 reported by Adam Simpkins on 2007-09-14

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	console-setup (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: console-setup

In feisty, /bin/setupcon reads the XKB model, layout, variant, and options from
/etc/default/console-setup. However, there is no way to tell it to use an
alternate XKB rules file.

I'll attach a patch to setupcon that allows an "XKBRULES" variable to be
specified in /etc/default/console-setup. If this variable is present and
non-empty, setupcon will pass this value to ckbcomp.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/console-setup

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Adam Simpkins (simpkins) wrote on 2007-09-14:

setupcon.patch Edit (792 bytes, text/plain)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-03-31:

Thanks, applied with a minor tweak.

Changed in console-setup:
assignee:	nobody → kamion
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-03-31:

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.21ubuntu5

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console-setup (1.21ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low

  * Silence error messages for keycodes 214, 215, 216, and 217, which are
    various special keys in the default X.org PC keyboard map that we don't
    need to handle.
  * Map dead_stroke to U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS.
  * Add a "Do not configure keyboard; keep kernel keymap" model option,
    preseedable by console-setup/modelcode=SKIP (LP: #59889).
  * Drop the layout/variant priority to high on fresh installs
    (LP: #205959).
  * Support rules with multiple consequents (thanks, Adam Simpkins;
    LP: #139710).
  * Allow specifying alternate rules using XKBRULES (thanks, Adam Simpkins;
    LP: #139712).