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Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard drivers
To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:28:40 +0200 (MET DST)
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In reply to Kaleb S. KEITHLEY who wrote:
> 
> > This used to work before the xkb code went in.  
> 
> The point being?
> 
> > (I admit that the
> > *way* how it worked was quite painful, but the initial mapping was
> > there in place.)
> 
> If you don't want the features of XKB, run the server with -xkb or add
> XkbDisable to your XF86Config. Really, how tough is it to edit your XF86Config 
> file? Yeah, it'd be nice if you didn't have to do it two places, but it doesn't 
> take a PhD to do it either, so kwicherbitchen and edit your XF86Config file 
> to make XKB load the keymap you want.

You should add a nice little util to do this (thats one of the things
I like about Xinsides server :) )
> 
> If you want XKB in XFree86 to automatically work better on FreeBSD then I 
> need some better support at the OS level.

Sigh, the support is (was) there look in the old sources, it worked just
fine, I think you guys screwed up if you broke that support !
Besides FreeBSD is not the only one using this interface, SCO & SVR4
does it like this too...


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