21.03.2020 6:41, Niclas Zeising wrote: > [ This is cross-posted across several mailing lists for maximum visibility. > Please respect reply-to and keep replies to x...@freebsd.org . Thank you! ] > > 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
Please consider improving x11/libxkbcommon so that it uses -Ddefault-rules=xorg if OSVERSION notes 11.x at build time, so there would be no breakage for us building xorg from ports. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
