On 2020-03-23 22:00, Niclas Zeising wrote:
In ports r528813 I switched FreeBSD 11 (including FreeBSD 11.3 and the
           ^^^^^^^^
This should be r529003, sorry about that.


upcoming 11.4) back to use the legacy rule set.  This means that once you have installed libxkbcommon 0.10.0_2 on FreeBSD 11, things should work as normal, and the environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES does not need to be changed.

If you are on FreeBSD 12 or later, and are using xf96-input-keyboard, you might still need to set this env variable.  Please see the instructions below.

Regards

On 2020-03-21 00:41, Niclas Zeising wrote:
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In order to improve support when using evdev to manage input devices, in particular keyboards, we have switched the default in x11/libxkbcommon to the evdev instead of the legacy ruleset.  This was done in ports r528813 .

On FreeBSD 11.3, the default configuration still requires the legacy ruleset.

If you are using FreeBSD 11.3, or if you are using xf86-input-keyboard on FreeBSD 12 or later, you need to change the ruleset used by x11/libxkbcommon.

If you have issues with your keyboard, most notably arrow keys, and if /var/log/Xorg.*.log shows that the "kbd" or "keyboard" driver is being used, you need to switch to legacy rules by setting the environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES to xorg.

The easiest way to accomplish this is by adding it to your shell startup file.

As an example, for users of [t]csh, put
   setenv XKB_DEFAULT_RULES xorg
in ~/.login

For users of bourne type shells (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) instead put
export XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=xorg
in ~/.profile

Regards



Regards
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Niclas Zeising
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