On Sat 07 Oct 2017 at 01:11:18 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2017-10-06 20:25 (UTC-0500): > > > On Fri 06 Oct 2017 at 18:57:31 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Brian composed on 2017-10-06 23:31 (UTC+0100): > ... > >> > 'setxbdmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"' in ~/.xsession is less > >> > typing and more user-friendly. > > >> 1-That was an "as-is" copy from Fedora on a multiboot system, much easier > >> than > >> typing in an ~/.xsession file that didn't exist. I have no idea whether the > >> match or layout lines would be necessary in Debian. > > >> 2-Keyword: "user-friendly". /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf is global > >> configuration, vs. user-specific ~/.xsession. > > > I don't understand why you want to do it this way. Debian unified > > /etc/default/keyboard so that the values specified there are used > > in both the VCs and X. > > 1-I was responding to the sole thread focus on user-specific configuration, > pointing out global configuration as an alternative. > > 2-xorg.conf came first, thus, familiarity with configuration via > /etc/X11/xorg.conf*. Most of the time I need to use it anyway for things > other than keyboard in Xorg. No need to fix what ain't broke. > > 3-man page for /etc/default/keyboard is a redirect to the keyboard man page, > which like most man pages I find thin on examples. > > 4-aversion to that directory name. To me, defaults are things shipped by the > distro provider.
For many of the items in /etc/default, the provider can't set a sensible default. keyboard is one of these as the provider can't possibly know whether your keyboard layout is gb, for example. > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard would make more sense for something > globally managed by the admin, Why not make a link to /etc/default then, and have done with it. > along with keeping shipped defaults in /usr. That's already the case, isn't it? One normally doesn't alter files in /usr. For years, I had it mounted readonly. Cheers, David.
