Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:56:30 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost. Message-ID: <38A07712-CC29-4A70-89E2-57DD2BD98400@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHhngE1RzkNpds16ijJmqfBmurvmfU0cX0--zWmToSTkJQDFgA@mail.gmail.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> <CAHhngE1RzkNpds16ijJmqfBmurvmfU0cX0--zWmToSTkJQDFgA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:57 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > 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 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. > > 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. Indeed, yes-- that's KeyboardTypeSection, part of Setup Assistant.app used to perform initial configuration of a new system. While I think it makes a good example, I don't want to evangelize stuff from $REALJOB too strongly. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck
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