[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH 1/2] apply the keyboard language settings on boot

Joshua C. joshuacov at gmail.com
Thu Aug 8 21:49:25 UTC 2013


>From ab83b322353e74f9b89ad1df667198fa5e812591 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Live System User <liveuser at localhost.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 23:38:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] apply the keyboard language settings on boot

---
 fedora-live-base.ks | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 169 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fedora-live-base.ks b/fedora-live-base.ks
index 7227308..9cfdfa5 100644
--- a/fedora-live-base.ks
+++ b/fedora-live-base.ks
@@ -223,6 +223,173 @@ fi
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679486
 echo "localhost" > /etc/hostname

+# Apply the keyboard settings from "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
+mkdir -p /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
+cat > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/keyboard.py << KEYBOARD_PY_EOF
+#
+# keyboard.py - keyboard backend data object
+#
+# Brent Fox <bfox at redhat.com>
+# Mike Fulbright <msf at redhat.com>
+# Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
+# Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
+#
+# Copyright 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
+# Copyright 2009 Lubomir Rintel
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#
+
+import dbus
+import string
+import os
+from subprocess import call
+import system_config_keyboard.keyboard_models as keyboard_models
+
+class Keyboard():
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._mods = keyboard_models.KeyboardModels()
+
+        self.type = "PC"
+        self.beenset = 0
+        self.config = []
+
+        # default to us
+        self.set("us")
+
+        try:
+            bus = dbus.SystemBus()
+            hal =
dbus.Interface(bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.Hal","/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager"),"org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager")
+            kbs = hal.FindDeviceByCapability("input.keyboard")
+            if len(kbs) == 0:
+                self.type = "Serial"
+            else:
+                self._var ("KEYBOARDTYPE", "pc")
+            kb = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.Hal",
kbs[0]), 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device')
+            if kb.GetPropertyString("info.product").startswith("Sun Type"):
+                self.type == "Sun"
+                self._var ("KEYBOARDTYPE", "sun")
+        except:
+            pass
+
+    def _get_models(self):
+        return self._mods.get_models()
+    modelDict = property(_get_models)
+
+    def _var (self, name, value = None):
+        found = 0
+        for line in self.config:
+                if line[1] == name:
+                        found = 1
+                        break
+        if not found:
+                line = [None, None, None]
+        # get or set?
+        if not value:
+            return line[2]
+        line[1:3] = (name, value)
+        line[0] = '{0}="{1}"\n'.format (name, value)
+        if not found:
+                self.config.append (line)
+
+    def set(self, keytable):
+        if self.type != "Serial":
+            kb = self.modelDict[keytable]
+            self._var ("KEYTABLE", keytable)
+            self._var ("MODEL", kb[2])
+            self._var ("LAYOUT", kb[1])
+            self._var ("VARIANT", kb[3])
+            self._var ("OPTIONS", kb[4])
+
+    def get(self):
+        return self._var ("KEYTABLE")
+
+    def read(self, instPath = "/"):
+        try:
+            file = open(instPath + "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard", "r")
+        except:
+            return
+        self.config = []
+        while 1:
+                line = file.readline ()
+                if not line:
+                        break
+                (name, value) = line.rstrip("\n").split ('=')
+                self.config.append ([line, name, value.strip ('"'), 0])
+        self.beenset = 1
+
+    def activate(self):
+        # XXX do isys.loadkeys
+        console_kbd = self.get()
+        if not console_kbd:
+            return
+
+        # Call loadkeys to change the console keymap
+        if os.access("/bin/loadkeys", os.X_OK):
+            command = "/bin/loadkeys"
+        elif os.access("/usr/bin/loadkeys", os.X_OK):
+            command = "/usr/bin/loadkeys"
+        else:
+            command = "/bin/loadkeys"
+        argv = [ command, console_kbd ]
+
+        if os.access(argv[0], os.X_OK) == 1:
+            call (argv)
+
+        try:
+            kbd = self.modelDict[console_kbd]
+        except KeyError:
+            return
+
+        if not kbd:
+            return
+        (name, layout, model, variant, options) = kbd
+
+        # only set the X keyboard map if running X
+        if not os.environ.has_key("DISPLAY"):
+            return
+
+        argv = [ "/usr/bin/setxkbmap", "-layout", layout ]
+
+        # XXX setxkbmap(1) needs one -option flag for each option
+        if options:
+            argv = argv + [ "-option", options ]
+
+        if variant:
+            argv = argv + [ "-variant", variant ]
+
+        if os.access(argv[0], os.X_OK) == 1:
+            call (argv)
+
+def ActivateKeyboard():
+        kbd = Keyboard()
+        kbd.read()
+        kbd.set(kbd.get())
+        kbd.activate()
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ActivateKeyboard()
+KEYBOARD_PY_EOF
+
+cat > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/set-keyboard.sh << SET_KEYBOARD_SH_EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+
+export PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/system-config-keyboard
+/usr/bin/python /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/keyboard.py \$*
+SET_KEYBOARD_SH_EOF
+
 EOF

 # bah, hal starts way too late
@@ -289,6 +456,8 @@ chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late
 /sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late
 /sbin/chkconfig --add livesys-late

+chmod 755 /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/set-keyboard.sh
+
 # enable tmpfs for /tmp
 systemctl enable tmp.mount

-- 
1.8.3.1



-- 
--joshua
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