From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 12 16:54:08 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 D2960106566B for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:54:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920A78FC14 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-228-22.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.228.22]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19501ECBF; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:54:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id nBCGs64u001578; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:54:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:54:06 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Warren Block Message-Id: <20091212175406.39dbcb8e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Carmel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:54:08 -0000 On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > Normally, the user shouldn't have to create XML files. If they intended to use another than default english keyboard layout... well, creating the correspoinding XML file as shown in the handbook seemed to be the way to go. In the past, things were centralized in xorg.conf for all the options that would be interesting to the X server: Screen settings, fonts, mouse, keyboard. Now, those settings seem to be non-existent (autodetected) or scattered around into config files of different subsystems. Getting a three button mouse (with middle mouse for wheel functionality) would be an interesting task, too, awaiting my attention soon. :-) > The new hal-0.5.13_12 solves some serious problems I had with the > earlier version. Maybe problems other people had too, but there haven't > been any posts about someone trying HAL again and seeing if it works > better now. I'm confident that things like HAL and DBUS make the "plug and play" experience much better in the future, especially with the big desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, Xfce). Still, I'm a bit surprised that such functionalities have been present in times where HAL and DBUS didn't exist yet... but maybe due to the fact that more and more stuff is accessed via USB, and those USB devices often aren't interested in standards and specifications, the use of HAL and DBUS (and maybe others, such as CUPS) gets more and more unavoidable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...