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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]