[arch-general] Option "XkbLayout" doesn't work?

[Denis A. Altoé Falqueto]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sergey Manucharian <sergeym at rmico.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> It looks like the setting of keyboards layouts in xorg.conf doesn't
> work anymore, or I'm missing something?
>
> ----------------------8<----------------------
> Section "InputDevice"
>    .....
>    Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
>    Option "XkbModel"   "evdev"
>    Option "XkbLayout"  "us,ru,am"
>    Option "XkbVariant"  ",phonetic,phonetic"
>    .....
> EndSection
> ----------------------8<----------------------
>
> The only way I can set up the kbd layout is the using "setxkbmap" with
> the same settings in my "~/.xinitrc".
>
> Is it a bug of a "feature" of the new X?
>
> Cheers,
> Sergey
>
>


There's some time now that X Window has a hotplugging feature. You can
disable it, probably is what you want. See
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging for more
information.

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