(no)deadkeys keyboard default setting

[Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin dot Riefenstahl at epost dot de>]

Hi all,


There is a small problem with the interaction between the German
default keyboard detection and the XF86Config.  The German keyboard is
defaulted to XkbVariant="nodeadkeys".  I wanted to reset that to
XkbVariant="" in XF86Config, but that didn't work.  Turns out that the
routines for parsing XF86Config in winconfig.c don't recognise empty
strings.

Changing OPTV_STRING to OPTV_ANYSTR in winSetStrOption() fixes the
problem for me.


Aside: I am not sure that the default XkbVariant="nodeadkeys" is a
good idea.  It may be the default on other Unix systems, but it's
certainly not the default on native Windows, so it's incompatible with
other applications on the same desktop.


Another question: The CVS version of XFree86 (plus the patched files
from xwin-20030518-1426.tar.bz2) creates the DLLs with different names
than the pre-installed package.  Is that intentional, have I missed
some part of the docs?


so long, benny