Damjan Georgievski wrote:

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Judging from my findings on the interwebs it is possible to pass options for the X11 keyboard via hal's policies. This seems very useful for system-wide keyboards settings. However, I'm having problems making them stick.

I can do the setup via xkbcomp, and the relevant line is

xkb_symbols { include "pc+gb+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_alt)+level3(enter_switch)+compose(menu)" };

This is what I have in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi :

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"> <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge> </match>

so extrapolated from that, it should be something like <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">gb</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions" type="string">compose(menu)</merge> for ex. Afaik you don't need pc and inet(evdev), since those are defaults.

Yes, that much I got working. But I'm failing to add the level3 settings (ralt_alt and enter_switch). /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe