Bug#815154: gnome-control-center removes XKBMODEL and XKBOPTIONS from /etc/default/keyboard

[Felipe Sateler]

On 19 February 2016 at 14:52, Anton Zinoviev <anton at lml.bas.bg> wrote:
>
>> Is XKBMODEL= always expected to be written out to the file even
>> if the value is empty? (or is it a bug in the parsers not handling
>> when its missing? I'd say normally you want parsers to be liberal
>> in what they accept.)
>
> XKBMODEL has no default value (at least in console-setup).  It should always be
> present and never as empty value.

This is not what keyboard(5) says:


XKBMODEL
     Specifies the XKB keyboard model name.  Default: pc105 for  most
     platforms.

On 20 February 2016 at 11:02, Anton Zinoviev <anton at lml.bas.bg> wrote:
> In case it is difficult to preserve the existing value, you can use 'pc105' as a
> default value.  Alternatively, the following table with default values can be
> used:
>
> Architecture  Subarchitecture Model
> -----------------------------------
> m68k          atari           ataritt
> m68k          mac             macintosh_old
> m68k          Other           pc105
> powerpc       amiga           amiga
> powerpc       Other           pc105
> Other                         pc105

Maybe console-setup should encode this table itself, so that the
documentation becomes correct.
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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler