[OE-core] [PATCH] matchbox-keyboard: Hide desktop launcher

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-04-13 14:24, Maxin B. John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2016-04-13 14:08, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
>>> On 13 April 2016 at 14:35, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>>
>>> Have you checked that your /etc/formfactor/machconfig contains "HAVE_KEYBOARD=0"? This value is used by
>>> /etc/matchbox/session to decide whether to load the keyboard panel or not, and by .the Xsession script to decide whether
>>> to start the daemonized keyboard or not.
>>
>> Has this or any of the files it depends on (/etc/formfactor/*) changed recently?
>> As I said, as recently as mid February everything worked as expected, no longer.
>> If something changed that I need to track, I'm happy to adapt.
>>
>
> Yes, there was a change in Keyboard related logic in formfactor with this recent commit:
>
> commit 463fd5ee26c5037b0f4ecfe4bc6ed48945b3b07e
> Author: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Mar 3 16:56:43 2016 +0000
>
>   formfactor: assume a keyboard is plugged in
>
>   A sensible assumption is that BSPs have a USB keyboard and mouse connected
>   unless told otherwise, so flip the logic in the formfactor config script that
>   previously assumed that a keyboard was not connected by default.
>
>   [ YOCTO #9174 ]
>
> (From OE-Core rev: a82ce3e477a475dccea3837eabacd9e93b873ee6)

Wow, what an assumption!  Anyway, adding the correct machconfig for
my target fixes the problem.

Thanks for the pointer

>
>   Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
>   Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>   <snip>
> if [ -z "$HAVE_KEYBOARD" ]; then
>   -    HAVE_KEYBOARD=0
>   +    HAVE_KEYBOARD=1
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Maxin
>


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