Brian Cameron wrote:
> Are there any reasons why XKB isn't supported yet on Xsun?
XKB is supported on Xsun - has been since Solaris 7 11/99. It's not on by
default, and since all our Xsun work is around removing Xsun, not enhancing
it, we don't plan to change that.
> I wasn't aware of the XKB option. I agree, this does sound like a
> possible solution. Obviously many users would find the keyboard
> switcher applet useful, and if we can figure out a way to make it work
> reasonably on Solaris (meaning something the Xserver team would agree
> works in a supported way), then we should support it.
As long as it uses the undocumented private libxkbfile, it's going to
have problems working with multiple X servers, or any server other than
the one that exactly matches the libxkbfile it uses. (Xsun & Xorg have
different versions of that file, as the previous attempts to ship GNOME
code using libxklavier tripped over badly.)
> One difficulty is that the Xserver team seems very under-resourced,
> and Xsun is already in the process of EOL. It might be hard to get
> resources to get XKB enabled on Sparc, especially if much work is
> involved. It would be a good idea to get Alan Coopersmith's thoughts
> about this idea.
XKB is enabled by default on SPARC systems running Xorg, and I'm trying
to convince the Sun Ray team to do the same in their upcoming Xorg-based
Xnewt server. If you want it in Xsun, you'll have to convince someone
in management to spend resources on a system we've already EOL'ed and will
not be shipping in OpenSolaris or any post-Solaris-10 versions of Solaris.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
