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support configuring >4 keyboard layouts
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-xkb-plugin
Component:
General

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Description Liv 2010-06-28 23:12:14 CEST
I've already raised this once on the ML [1]. 

X.Org and XKB limit in a hardcoded manner the number of configured keyboard layouts to four [2]. It would be nice if xfce4-xkb could work around such a limitation. A related discussion [3].

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Alexander Iliev <sasoiliev@mamul.org> wrote:
> Some time ago I was planning to add such a feature in xfce4-xkb plugin,
> but the code would get really messy with such a feature. I might take
> a look into this again.
>


[1] http://old.nabble.com/number-of-configured-keyboard-layouts-tt22739479.html#a22739479
[2] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19501
[3] http://community.livejournal.com/xkbconfig/304.html
Comment 1 Azamat H. Hackimov editbugs 2011-05-22 21:29:45 CEST
Well, since xkb-plugin implemented via klavier API, I don't see any way to solve 4 layout limitations of X.org. Sorry.

Bug #6534

Reported by:
Liv
Reported on: 2010-06-28
Last modified on: 2011-05-22

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Assignee:
Alexander Iliev
CC List:
1 user

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