From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M50TV-0005d5-02 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:41:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 192E0E0647; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.240]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E204DE0647 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 16:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1154709rvf.46 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 09:41:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PHew+WsYWpG4OcysNy4dzmAPK6LW9hXyjit0/gOB3uM=; b=mD5ewQ8Gv1BwN2H5ykWB4SeAyyy12s76khjleZCW/OXwdFTupEZQeAN5bQLa/JFFDw fRrOqzsRqm4tWLQAQ4E9ysoI8+ms2NZFTN8Ti3yQgso5XeFQKptLTwTo/J1U4aLt5bP8 Kw7bG7+zcUUR8R2YfixLR+XyvT17chyy3hlRk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OktmE5UC45l44Ya5A8ywMwx99B3WL2sGTpV8YbcpsHbcINxxOIPlbH6lSbvmpqNRkR RQ4aX6jGgqNaHbWxslbAS8pyRHCs/gt+SmmbLezo0q+g1t5uqQPmH4oAJT/exm5Jrh4B hhuiOvzvlxRG5tYMtY8g8A/zcQ+lacdpsECEA= Received: by 10.141.41.12 with SMTP id t12mr1382301rvj.289.1242405691461; Fri, 15 May 2009 09:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.169.141? (r169h141.dixie-net.com [64.89.169.141]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k2sm2875395rvb.4.2009.05.15.09.41.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 15 May 2009 09:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A0D9B2F.4000106@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:41:19 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090502 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 References: <200904070939.57495.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <58965d8a0904080918p24893067p516d71046c991e01@mail.gmail.com> <200905151803.22023.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200905151810.51656.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905151810.51656.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bfa3e951-b6c5-434e-81b3-798841ad31bf X-Archives-Hash: d2f9709b7dbf569cda3c414199badfe2 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2009 18:03:21 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >>> >>> wrote: >>> > > >>>>> So I think setting it in xorg.conf is easier, but at least it is not >>>>> absolutely required if you can run setxkbmap in your xdm startup. :) >>>>> >>>> which is so idiotic I won't even comment on that any further. >>>> >>> I think editing /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi is easier than that, >>> even. :) >>> >> and I think editing xorg.conf is the easiest way. >> > > I think dumping hal for the stupid piece of software it is and moving to > devicekit like the developer intends, is an even easier way... > > Since the "new" xorg-server was a complete flop here, when will this devicekit option be coming? Please tell me it will be easier that hal is. Dale :-) :-)