On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:09:16AM +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to configure X for multiple keyboard layouts, e. g.:
- french
- swiss french
- german
On my Linux box (running CentOS 5.4 and a dated version of X.org), the
configuration for this looks like this :
Section InputDevice
Identifier Keyboard0
Driver kbd
Option XkbModel pc105
Option XkbLayout fr,ch,de
Option XkbVariant ,fr,
Option XkbOptions grp:alt_shift_toggle
EndSection
This stanza enables me to toggle between different keyboard layouts,
using the [Alt]+[RightShift] key combination. You might wonder about the
XkbVariant option: the swiss keyboard layout has two variants: fr and
de. This is to indicate the swiss roman layout.
Now is there any way I could achieve a similar thing with the more
recent X.org shipping with FreeBSD 8.0 ?
Any suggestions ?
Hi Niki,
Welcome to FreeBSD!
There is a way to achieve similar results with recent X.org.
X nowadays can get by without an xorg.conf and by default it uses hald
and dbus to configure keyboard, mouse etc.
It's documented how you can create an xorg.conf and use that for
device config rather than hald:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
You basically create an xorg.conf and then add:
Option AutoAddDevices false
to the ServerLayout section and then your keyboard config placed in
your xorg.conf will be picked up.
You will also need a section for the mouse along the lines of:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver mouse
Option CorePointer
Option Protocol auto
Option Device /dev/sysmouse
# Option Emulate3Buttons false
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7# For scroll wheel
EndSection
It's parameters are dependent on your type of mouse.
With that and xorg.conf placed under /etc/X11/ you should be good to
go.
But I'm quite sure you know that xorg.conf can be a fiddle ;)
If you get stuck, post your xorg.conf
BTW, if you haven't read it already the manpage for moused(8) is quite
a revelation. The FreeBSD mouse driver puts the Linux mouse driver to
shame!
Regards,
--
Frank
Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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