On Mon, 30 May 2011, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Some years ago X.Org decided to switch to a new set of XKB (the X
> Keyboard extension) data files known as xkeyboard-config. 
> 
> For various reasons (local changes, complexity of the build system for 
> xkeyboard-config, slacking) Xenocara is still using the old and
> unmaintained xkb-data. 
> 
> The update is needed for libxklavier which is a required library for
> some Desktop related ports. Keyboard handling in GNOME3 for one will
> not work at all without this update. KDE4 may require the same at some
> point and same goes for ports that use xkeyboard-config.
> 
> With the help of Alexandr Shadchin, Xenocara now ready to switch to
> xkeyboard-config, but we'd like to have a last round of tests. 
> 
> For this apply the patch below and rebuild xenocara from sources. 
> 
> Please note that this will move the xkb data files from /etc/X11 to
> /usr/X11R6/share/X11 
> 
> Report success/failures to shadchin@ and me. Thanks.

Works beautifully for me on i386 and amd64. I also tried macppc, it 
worked but I'm using a regular keyboard, not an apple one, so I'm not 
sure that counts :)


> Index: share/mk/bsd.xconf.mk
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/OpenBSD/xenocara/share/mk/bsd.xconf.mk,v
> retrieving revision 1.18
> diff -u -p -u -r1.18 bsd.xconf.mk
> --- share/mk/bsd.xconf.mk     8 Mar 2011 20:48:59 -0000       1.18
> +++ share/mk/bsd.xconf.mk     29 May 2011 17:07:33 -0000
> @@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ XENOCARA_BUILD_PIXMAN?=yes
>  .endif
>  
>  # Build xkeyboard-config?
> -XENOCARA_USE_XKEYBOARD_CONFIG?=no
> +XENOCARA_USE_XKEYBOARD_CONFIG?=yes
> 
> 

-- 
Antoine

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