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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2021-07-12 09:46:25 +1000 |
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| committer | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2021-07-13 12:28:41 +1000 |
| commit | 13d1e26d696c5113a20dfc2f56c03ddb837a2eac (patch) | |
| tree | 35813feb77c99c49552119759c4c6bebb5ff60ba /man/setxkbmap.man | |
| parent | e03ecc3e00b411108449923cf006251b54f91c26 (diff) | |
Check for Xwayland and print a warning
Running setxkbmap isn't supported by Xwayland, so let's warn the user that
this won't work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Acked-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/setxkbmap.man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/setxkbmap.man | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/setxkbmap.man b/man/setxkbmap.man index 926b6f7..d02f25f 100644 --- a/man/setxkbmap.man +++ b/man/setxkbmap.man @@ -138,6 +138,18 @@ directly to the \fBxkbcomp\fP input. For example, the command makes both steps run on the same (client) machine and loads a keyboard map into the server. + +.SH "XWAYLAND" +Xwayland is an X server that uses a Wayland Compositor as backend. +Xwayland acts as translation layer between the X protocol and the Wayland +protocol but does not manage the keymaps - these are handled by the Wayland +Compositor. +.PP +Changing the keymap with \fBsetxkbmap\fP is not supported by Xwayland. +In most instances, using \fBsetxkbmap\fP on Xwayland is indicative of a +bug in a shell script and \fBsetxkbmap\fP will print a warning. Use the Wayland +Compositor's native XKB configuration methods instead. + .SH SEE ALSO xkbcomp(__appmansuffix__), xkeyboard-config(__miscmansuffix__) .SH FILES |