I've spent several days reading man pages, configuration directory
README's, configuration files, ISO standards to figure out what the
README's were saying, etc....
And aside from there being no useful mention whatsoever of laptop
function keys, as far as I can tell keyboard configuration has become
an arcane, confusing, and poorly documented mess. It's spread over
dozens of directories and hundreds of files. I get that it's a
complicated problem, but this is nuts. There doesn't even seem to
be any way to get X to tell me what keyboard configuration files it's
actually using. I can't even begin to tell what file I ought to
try modifying to fix my problem.
Documentation that says what steps are applied to keyboard input, in
what order, and what files control the transformations involved in
those steps, and how, is very very necessary here, and I don't have
the ability to write it. If it existed I might have the ability to
fix this damn bug, but I haven't been able to assimilate the myriad
oblique and subtle clues yet to figure out where the one or two lines
I probably need to change might be found.
Surely it can't be necessary to learn all of X11R6 to figure out where
to go to fix a keyboard bug??
I have heard in email from several people who say they're having the
exact same problem and want to know if I've found a solution yet. I
have not.
And the silence from Debian-bugs is very very depressing. Is anybody
out there? Does anybody even have any questions about my system or
configuration that I could answer just to give me the illusion that
I'm contributing to a solution?
Bear
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