From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xkeyboard-config overwrote files in CONFIG_PROTECT-ed directory (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols)
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:37:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4de035c2-08fe-7488-237f-526539e25ee3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+t6X7c6cbhjPUGN=EvWx+JLsdOYz50TUE264dNRKkc3nNSGqg@mail.gmail.com>
gevisz wrote:
> вс, 27 июл. 2025 г. в 18:24, gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>:
>> Ionen Wolkens replied that it should be /etc/xkb/symbols/ directory.
>> I will try it. If it does not work, I will copy my custom keyboard
>> configuration files from there manually.
> I have just checked: my Gentoo system ignores my custom
> keyboard layout configuration files that I have put into the
> /etc/xkb/symbols/ directory. For me, it a failure of Gentoo to
> meet its own specifications and common sense in general
> because a rolling release definitely should preserve user-changed
> configuration files.
There has to be a right place for those config files. Finding the place
might be a problem tho. Lack of documentation is the biggest problem.
I would try it directly in /etc/xkb. See if that works. If not, then I
would try a location similar to what it is in /usr only in /etc, or
maybe try it in /home. My thinking is this, if you put them in /usr
again, you could end up with them being overwritten again. I'd keep
testing to find where that place is to avoid problems in the future.
Oh, sometimes a file has to end in a certain way, like .conf for
example. If not, it won't apply it. That may be something else to look
into.
If you do find out where it goes, I'd post that info on the bug report.
It might get updated in the build process and others can find the info
as well. Save someone else some grief. Actually, it might be worth
posting on the bug report that those locations are not working. Could
be a bug.
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-28 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-27 12:18 [gentoo-user] xkeyboard-config overwrote files in CONFIG_PROTECT-ed directory (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols) gevisz
2025-07-27 13:02 ` Michael
2025-07-27 13:39 ` gevisz
2025-07-27 13:06 ` Dale
2025-07-27 13:24 ` Dale
2025-07-27 13:41 ` gevisz
2025-07-27 14:47 ` Dale
2025-07-27 15:01 ` gevisz
2025-07-27 15:24 ` gevisz
2025-07-27 15:32 ` Dale
2025-07-27 15:40 ` gevisz
2025-07-27 23:57 ` gevisz
2025-07-28 0:35 ` James Cloos
2025-07-28 0:44 ` Dale
2025-07-28 0:37 ` Dale [this message]
2025-07-28 0:41 ` James Cloos
2025-07-28 0:50 ` James Cloos
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