Bug#555442: console-setup should support shifts_toggle

[Itai Seggev]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.45
Severity: normal

If I do a dpkg-reconfigure consle-setup, I get a nice gui for setting all sorts
of keyboard options.  However, my prefered layout toggle option,
grp:shifts_toggle, is not listed.  I managed to work around this by direcly
editing /etc/default/console-setup (is there some way to directly edit debconf
values?), but it would be nice if this option were available using the standard
front-end.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (110, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental'), (10, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc9.nouveau (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.28-1     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  xkb-data                      1.6-1      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-66 Linux console and font utilities

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.9-25     GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: Israel - lyx
  console-setup/unsupported_options: true
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/other:
* console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: true
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
* console-setup/switch: Both Logo keys
  console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 16
  console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
  console-setup/layoutcode: us,il
  console-setup/optionscode: grp:alt_caps_toggle,grp:win_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll
  debian-installer/console-setup/title:
  console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/layout: Israel
  console-setup/variantcode: ,lyx
  console-setup/codesetcode: Hebrew
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
  console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
* console-setup/codeset: # Hebrew
* console-setup/toggle: Alt+Caps Lock
* console-setup/fontface: Fixed



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[Anton Zinoviev]

severity 555442 wishlist
tags 555442 wontfix
thank you

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:53:57AM -0600, Itai Seggev wrote:
>
> If I do a dpkg-reconfigure consle-setup, I get a nice gui for setting
> all sorts of keyboard options.  However, my prefered layout toggle
> option, grp:shifts_toggle, is not listed.  I managed to work around
> this by direcly editing /etc/default/console-setup (is there some way
> to directly edit debconf values?), but it would be nice if this option
> were available using the standard front-end.

It is impossible to support shifts_toggle on the Linux console.  Thats
why this option is not included in the debconf menu.  I added the tag
wontfix because I think it will be inconvenient for the users to include
partialy supported options.  If the other developers think that
shifts_toggle should be included in the menu, I will make the required
changes.

The proper way to tune the configuration of console-setup is to either
use dpkg-reconfigure or to edit directly /etc/default/console-setup.  
The values in the debconf data-base are ignored.

Anton Zinoviev





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> severity 555442 wishlist
Bug #555442 [console-setup] console-setup should support shifts_toggle
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal'

> tags 555442 wontfix
Bug #555442 [console-setup] console-setup should support shifts_toggle
Added tag(s) wontfix.
> thank you
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