Re: [Fwd: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-48]

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I forgot to mention that XF86Config support is disabled in this release.
>   It may be possible to get XF86Config support building again, but
> Alexander recently added some command-line options that should be a
> useable replacement for most users.  In addition, the keyboard
> autoconfiguration seems to be working for nearly all users, so there may
> be little need for re-enabling the XF86Config support ever.

Some people are still using the config file eg. for setting another keyboard
variant like the german nodeadkeys variant.  This can now be done on the
commandline.

These options from the configfile are now available on the commandline

XF86Config option           commandlien option

Fontpath                    -fp
RgbPath                     -co
XKBLayout                   -xkblayout
XKBModel                    -xkbmodel
XKBRules                    -xkbrules
XKBVariant                  -xkbvariant
XKBOptions                  -xkboptions  (note: I've never used this and
                               I'm not sure this was correctly implememted)

So if you had  these entries in the configfile:

XKBLayout "de"
XKBVariant "nodeadkeys"

then it's now

XWin -xkblayout de -xkbvariant nodeadkeys

bye
    ago
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