On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote:
>> When I delete the Keyboard Layout Handler from lxpanel, the old settings
>> in /etc/defaults/keyboard seem to be honoured again. This has the obvious
>> drawback that lxpanel no longer shows the active keyboard layout. The file
>> /etc/defaults/keyboard was where I used to set the keyboard in Lubuntu
>> precise. I don't understand why the settings in that file no longer work
>> when the Keyboard Layout Handler is activated on lxpanel.
>
>
> they don't work because the keyboard layout handler overrides any default
> option when it's loaded, it uses setxkbmap itself.

I guess that this is the reason why my attempts to run setxkbmap in
~/.xsessionrc or ~/.bashrc have had no effect. Couldn't you use setxkbmap in a
way that does not override previous settings, but instead add to them?
According to man setxkbmap, this should be possible at least with the options
since the option flag by default "adds options specified in the command line to
the options that were set before".

I guess taking over previous settings might also help to keep the Keyboard
Layout Handler clean and and slim. No flexibility would be lost without your
including all the options from man xkeyboard-config. If somebody (like me)
would want some of the more arcane settings of man xkeyboard-config, they would
be able to do so in the old-fashioned way (e.g. /etc/defaults/keyboard).
Everybody else would continue to benefit from your improved Keyboard Layout
Handler.

>> The other issue is only a minor one (and most probably not your fault):
>> The Swiss flag is not correct. Like the Nepali flag (which is correct as far
>> as I can tell), it requires a special outline. In the case of the Swiss
>> flag, the outline must be quadratic. I am attaching a corrected PNG -- it
>> keeps the same dimensions like the original
>> /usr/share/lxpanel/images/xkb-flags/ch.png.
>
>
> I will fix this.

Thanks, and please feel free to copy the flag I have edited (you should get the
attachment this time).

-- 
ciao
mach

<<attachment: ch.png>>

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