Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:00:52 +0100 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> 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: <c1610dae-3550-abbb-9832-55f592c3bc98@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <fcad26a1-e678-3da1-3c4f-3781cb73650a@freebsd.org> References: <fcad26a1-e678-3da1-3c4f-3781cb73650a@freebsd.org>
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In ports r528813 I switched FreeBSD 11 (including FreeBSD 11.3 and the=20 upcoming 11.4) back to use the legacy rule set. This means that once=20 you have installed libxkbcommon 0.10.0_2 on FreeBSD 11, things should=20 work as normal, and the environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES does not=20 need to be changed. If you are on FreeBSD 12 or later, and are using xf96-input-keyboard,=20 you might still need to set this env variable. Please see the=20 instructions below. Regards On 2020-03-21 00:41, Niclas Zeising wrote: > [ This is cross-posted across several mailing lists for maximum=20 > visibility.=C2=A0 Please respect reply-to and keep replies to x11@FreeB= SD.org=20 > . Thank you! ] >=20 > In order to improve support when using evdev to manage input devices, i= n=20 > particular keyboards, we have switched the default in x11/libxkbcommon=20 > to the evdev instead of the legacy ruleset.=C2=A0 This was done in port= s=20 > r528813 . >=20 > On FreeBSD 11.3, the default configuration still requires the legacy=20 > ruleset. >=20 > If you are using FreeBSD 11.3, or if you are using xf86-input-keyboard=20 > on FreeBSD 12 or later, you need to change the ruleset used by=20 > x11/libxkbcommon. >=20 > If you have issues with your keyboard, most notably arrow keys, and if=20 > /var/log/Xorg.*.log shows that the "kbd" or "keyboard" driver is being=20 > used, you need to switch to legacy rules by setting the environment=20 > variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES to xorg. >=20 > The easiest way to accomplish this is by adding it to your shell startu= p=20 > file. >=20 > As an example, for users of [t]csh, put > =C2=A0 setenv XKB_DEFAULT_RULES xorg > in ~/.login >=20 > For users of bourne type shells (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) instead put > export XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=3Dxorg > in ~/.profile >=20 > Regards --=20 Niclas Zeising FreeBSD Graphics Team
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