missing extension in Xnest
After starting Xnest session to server (RedHat AS3) the extension XKEYBOARD
is missing. So the keyboard extensions are not implemented and I have to work with the standard keybord driver (u.s.). :Pengy: ubuntu client: $ xdpyinfo | grep XKEYBOARD XKEYBOARD RedHat server after Xnest login: $ xdpyinfo | grep XKEYBOARD This problem exists with ubuntu 6.10 & 7.04. Xnest details: Package: xnest Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: i386 Source: xorg-server Version: 2:1.2.0-3ubuntu8 This was reported to the ubuntu support forum. Any idea? |
It seems everyone has this problem - apart from those who use in any case the U.S. 104 key keyboard.
It is hardwired into the source of xnest. I am wondering how one can fool the program - such as creating a symlink to the keyboard we are using and naming it as if it were the U.S. keyboard. I have also played around with the keyboard extensions option (-kb +kb) and it seems to ignore it. With regard to the symlink I find it so difficult to understand how X organises and references the keyboard layouts I would be most grateful if anyone could develop this idea of providing a falsely named symlink. That, together with the security problem - xnest has to run with the option -ac before you can use the nested server - are the only hold-ups I've met so far in using xnest. At the moment I now run two servers: one on :0 and one on :1 - not the best solution but better than nothing. |
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