Ubuntu
console-setup package

XKBVARIANT variable is ignored

Bug #332729 reported by MDill
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Bug Description

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 with console-setup ver 1.25ubuntu4

Setting XKBLAYOUT="us" and XKBVARIANT="dvorak" in "$HOME/.console-setup" and running "sudo /bin/setupcon" fails to load the dvorak keymap. The "/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz mapping is always loaded instead.

In line 307 of /bin/setupcon the variable VARIANT is checked when I believe XKBVARIANT ought to be. This causes all the XKB... options to be ignored if one is using a normal "$HOME/.console-setup" configuration rather than a "$HOME/.console-setup.VARIANT" configuration. The VARIANT variable should only be evaluated early in the script to load the proper configuration file.

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