X Keyboard layout problem

[Warren Togami]

I think xorg.conf should be optional.

The default no xorg.conf should be able to handle simpler options 
overlayed on top of the autoconfiguration.  Keyboard layout and 
resolution should be overridable.  Extra fonts should be detected 
automatically (you need xorg.conf options for this?  huh?)  Dual screen 
might be a legitimate case where you need your own xorg.conf.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com

Bond, Darryl wrote:
> I think we need to be able to generate a special xorg.conf.
> What if we need a lower/higher resolution than the one the auto configurator determines.
> 
> My site (with 300 LTSP clients) has lots of special needs in the xorg.conf, ie resolution, extra fonts, dual screen etc.
> 
> Xrandr may be the way to handle resolution after the X server starts.
> 
> Darryl
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: X Keyboard layout problem
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> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448196
> This is a critical problem for anybody using a non-US keyboard layout with LTSP.
> 
> LTSP on Debian uses ltsp-trunk/client/configure-x.sh to generate an xorg.conf and mangle it to use an explicit keyboard layout before running the actual X.
> 
> Fedora LTSP uses X autoconfiguration without an xorg.conf.  This seems to be working extremely well, except for cases like this where we need a specific configuration option that differs from the X autoconfiguration.
> 
> Any ideas of what we can do?
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
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