Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:20:21 +0100 From: Michael Cardell Widerkrantz <mc@hack.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost. Message-ID: <86lirniy2y.fsf@kropotkin.hack.org> References: <4EB88225.9020702@bredband.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111080806260.70888@wonkity.com> <20111108205600.7a8e0205.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111081321010.72738@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1111081331150.72921@wonkity.com> <20111108215114.24d336e6.freebsd@edvax.de> <4EBA5EBD.7020501@bredband.net> <86pqh1njww.fsf@kropotkin.hack.org> <30329CB5-03FA-4717-81E6-43CC9CE43713@mac.com> <86ipmsl1ee.fsf@kropotkin.hack.org> <0953CCAB-C764-413C-9A13-ED5E77D1AEC4@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, 2011-11-10 20:12 (+0100): > Different keycaps means a different product SKU, at least. If they use > the same USB product ID Yes. I think this is a quite common scenario. > FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be > willing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks > would appreciate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY > keyboard layout means French, that JIS means Japanese, that QWERTZ > probably indicates German / Swiss / Hungarian, etc. Certainly. > To my mind, though, that's a fallback for when you have a KVM or a > PS/2-to-USB converter or suchlike in the way that prevents the device > from being correctly recognized. Or when you have, say, a keyboard that physically is an ANSI keyboard (one less physical key compared to ISO keyboards) but still want, say, a Swedish keymap or, indeed, your very own keymap, unlike any other. Like me when I'm using one of my Happy Hacking Keyboards. Topre switches FTW! -- http://hack.org/mc/ Plain text e-mails, please. HTML messages sent to me are silently deleted. OpenPGP welcome, 0xE4C92FA5.
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