Re: users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3
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: [ 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 Regards Regards -- Niclas Zeising ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3
In ports r528813 I switched FreeBSD 11 (including FreeBSD 11.3 and the 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: [ 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 Regards -- Niclas Zeising FreeBSD Graphics Team ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3
[ 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 Regards -- Niclas Zeising FreeBSD Graphics Team ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
