is xorg.conf still needed

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 13:12:55 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 14:46 +0400, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le mardi 29 avril 2008 à 23:05 -0400, Jeremy Katz a écrit :
> >   
> >> This is a very strong goal for Fedora 10, at least for me.  There are a
> >> couple of outstanding things that are going to have to be taken care of:
> >> *) Getting the X keyboard layout set based on /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
> >>     
> >
> > I hope this will be done by making the console use xkb layouts, 
> 
> Does it mean that we will have to have xkb things installed even on 
> machines where X is not installed now?
> (servers etc.)

The layout data, yes.  You wouldn't need the xkb tools (you'd need
console ones instead).  But the layout data doesn't take any more space
than the kbd layout data does really

Jeremy




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