Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:11:53 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New Xorg - different key-codes Message-ID: <20200312111153.687dd887@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <170ce15cc60.27fa.fa4b1493b064008fe79f0f905b8e5741@Leidinger.net> References: <6897965B-8B8A-4B18-A4BB-BEC77D3D6DC7@grem.de> <20200311214930.GC5435@rancor.immure.com> <170ce15cc60.27fa.fa4b1493b064008fe79f0f905b8e5741@Leidinger.net>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:31:40 +0100 Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: > Hi, > > This command sets the keyboard layout. You are supposed to set the > keyboard layout which matches the physical layout of the hardware. > This hadn't changed, it's a fundamental part of X11 since I know it > (X11 6.5) and even before... > [snip] Exactly. I just personally prefer to use setxkbmap, as all my setups are single user (one unprivileged user per machine that runs X, no shared machines) and customization happens in $HOME that way. Makes it a bit easier to setup a new machine (no digging in Xorg configs) and reading ~/.xinitrc basically tells me all about my current config. Plus, setxkbmap makes it easy to experiment, as it's applies changes while X is running, even if one makes the those changes permanently in an xorg config file later. And the resulting command is just one line (in my case as short as "setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de"), makes it easier to support people. Another useful application of the command is for debugging: "setxkbmap -query" will tell you what's currently configured (regardless how that configuration was done), e.g., On a machine running xorg 1.18: # setxkbmap -query rules: base model: pc105 layout: de On a machine running xorg 1.20: rules: evdev model: pc105 layout: de In both cases the same setxkbmap command was used in ~/.xinitrc to set model and layout. Rules were taken from Xorg's default config, which changed to evdev in 1.20. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Gmelin
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