Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:57:16 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost. Message-ID: <CAHhngE1RzkNpds16ijJmqfBmurvmfU0cX0--zWmToSTkJQDFgA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0953CCAB-C764-413C-9A13-ED5E77D1AEC4@mac.com> 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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On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be will= ing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreci= ate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY keyboard layout means Fr= ench, that JIS means Japanese, that QWERTZ probably indicates German / Swis= s / Hungarian, etc. I thought I'd mention that OS X takes an interesting approach to this. When you plug in a keyboard it doesn't recognize, it does a little dance where it tells you to press certain keys (e.g., "Press the key to the right of the left Shift key," with a little graphic to help you understand which key it means) and from the results it infers the layout.
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