XkbConfigurationManager patched

Puppy Forum member lp-dolittle reported a problem with setting the Swiss-German keyboard layout. I responded:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=970711#970711

I was browsing around in the Forum, reading old posts about XkbConfigurationManager, and came across this post from npierce, dated February 4, 2012:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=601824#601824

Then I realised that those patches, submitted in 2012, have still not been applied to XkbConfigurationManager!

Not mine in woofQ anyway. What about woof-CE? -- no, XkbConfigurationManager is not in woof-CE, it is a separate PET:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-noarch/xkbconfigmanager-1.2.pet

...no, it does not have those patches. But then, that PET is still using xorg.conf, so perhaps is no longer used in Puppy builds.

Anyway, after an incredible delay of five years, I have applied the patches from npierce. I have XkbConfigurationManager in rootfs-skeleton/usr/local/apps/XkbConfigurationManager in woofQ.

...I will have to tell npierce about this! Haven't "seen" him on the Forum for a long time though.

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