Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:17:49 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching Message-ID: <200905011717.50896.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <49FB0A30.1000309@videotron.ca> References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <200905011617.17118.tijl@ulyssis.org> <49FB0A30.1000309@videotron.ca>
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On Friday 01 May 2009 16:41:52 PJ wrote: > 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. Have you tried running "setxkbmap ca multi"?
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