Re: setting keyboardlayout via setxkbmap(1)

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:40:12PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > Now with xorg 1.6.3 2009-7-7, I get "Error loading new keyboard description"
> > no matter what settings I give to setxkbmap (e.g. setxkbmap -layout fr)
> 
> How did you update? From src, and an old version was previously installed
> in /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb?
> 
> Removing that whole directory and re-extracting X sets fixes this.

Thank you - I had seen (and acted according to) the note in UPDATING, but
apparently didn't delete enough)

Cheers,

Patrick