Hebrew FAQ

[Aharon Schkolnik]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> >> Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik at gmail.com> writes:
> >>> Actually, I meant to ask about setting up Hebrew using xorg.conf,
> >>
> >> Modern systems don't have xorg.conf - Xorg probes the system on
> >> startup, generates the necessary parameters, and "just works". I have
> >> 2 Fedora 10 computers with different video cards, etc. - neither has
> >> an xorg.conf.
> >
> > Yes, you're right, but if you want to set up Hebrew keyboard at the X
> > level, you need a xorg.conf file. That's how I have done it in the past.
>
> Not if you're using Xorg's input hotplugging, hal is responsible for
> that, without the need for xorg.conf. 

Very interesting !
How did you generate fdi file ?

> Here's my
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
>       <append key="info.callouts.add"
> type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
>     </match>
>
>     <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
>       <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge>
>
>       <!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
>            keyboard otherwise). -->
>       <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge>
>       <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
>              string="Linux">
>         <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
>       </match>
>
>       <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us,il</merge>
>       <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">,lyx</merge>
>       <merge key="input.xkb.options"
> type="string">grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle</merge>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>
> >> You can generate the file using Xorg --configure or sth of the kind,
> >> and if you have it Xorg will use it. I did not feel the need.
> >
> > I did that, but wasn't able to get the Hebrew keyboard stuff working.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Meir Kriheli


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