Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 06:55:59 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: x11@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3 Message-ID: <a78415f4-131a-8e25-ae22-a161eecf7493@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <fcad26a1-e678-3da1-3c4f-3781cb73650a@freebsd.org> References: <fcad26a1-e678-3da1-3c4f-3781cb73650a@freebsd.org>
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21.03.2020 6:41, Niclas Zeising wrote: > [ This is cross-posted across several mailing lists for maximum visibility. Please respect reply-to and keep replies to x11@FreeBSD.org . Thank you! ] > > In order to improve support when using evdev to manage input devices, in particular keyboards, we have switched the default in x11/libxkbcommon to the evdev instead of the legacy ruleset. This was done in ports r528813 . > > On FreeBSD 11.3, the default configuration still requires the legacy ruleset. > > If you are using FreeBSD 11.3, or if you are using xf86-input-keyboard on FreeBSD 12 or later, you need to change the ruleset used by x11/libxkbcommon. > > If you have issues with your keyboard, most notably arrow keys, and if /var/log/Xorg.*.log shows that the "kbd" or "keyboard" driver is being used, you need to switch to legacy rules by setting the environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES to xorg. > > The easiest way to accomplish this is by adding it to your shell startup file. > > As an example, for users of [t]csh, put > setenv XKB_DEFAULT_RULES xorg > in ~/.login > > For users of bourne type shells (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) instead put > export XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=xorg > in ~/.profile Please consider improving x11/libxkbcommon so that it uses -Ddefault-rules=xorg if OSVERSION notes 11.x at build time, so there would be no breakage for us building xorg from ports.
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