From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 1 14:41:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C83A1065676 for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 14:41:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E5E8FC18 for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 14:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KIY00FK1ZFW4C20@VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 May 2009 10:40:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <49FB0A30.1000309@videotron.ca> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:41:52 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) To: Tijl Coosemans References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <24851107@bb.ipt.ru> <49FAFFCF.9060702@videotron.ca> <200905011617.17118.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-reply-to: <200905011617.17118.tijl@ulyssis.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 14:41:57 -0000 Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: > >> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I >> am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & canadian >> multi. >> But the ca(multi) setting does not work either alone or with the us >> for switching. The accent keys are dead. Maybe the option for the >> keys should be set to nodeadkeys. >> But this is not worth pursuing as I am spending too much time on this >> as is. I have things under control, it just seems strange that the >> ca(multi) cannot be installed. Could be fluxbox? Oh well. >> > > I just tried ca(multi) under fluxbox and it just works. What version of > Xorg do you have (output of "X -version")? And what is the output of > "grep xkb_symbols /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ca"? > > Version 1.6 buit 13 April 2009 symbols/ca = "multi", "multix', "multi-2gr", "fr", & a few others You'd think it would work... Doesn't make sense. -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la plančte, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php