From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 29 13:20:58 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 854531065677 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:20:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E52E8FC13 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:20:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KIV00L226E97A40@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:20:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <49F85422.20403@videotron.ca> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:20:34 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) To: Tijl Coosemans References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <49F75E4F.9050200@videotron.ca> <49F77FDD.5090105@videotron.ca> <200904291041.01818.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-reply-to: <200904291041.01818.tijl@ulyssis.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:20:58 -0000 Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 00:14:53 PJ wrote: > >> Oh, well, another day lost... but, I guess it's better to limp than >> not to walk at all. :-\ >> > > I think it would help if you posted your /etc/rc.conf and > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Those are the two files that need to change. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Cool. Then I can ask some questions regarding all of this. rc.conf: (snipped to show the relevant entries) font8x16="iso15-8x16" font8x14="iso15-8x14" font8x8="iso15-8x8" allscreens_flags="VGA_80x60 cyan" rpcbind_enable="YES" mountd_flags="-r" nfs_client_enable="YES" nfs_client_flags="-n 4" samba_enable="YES" cupsd_enable="YES" apache22_enable="YES" postgresql_enable="YES" mysql_enable="YES" webmin_enable="YES" #keymap=fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd Question: 1. the font entries? The /usr/share/syscons/fonts/ entry has suffixes of .fnt - ??? 2. the keymap is commented out because, although it gives me the fr_CA keyboard, it also uses French messages which are a bit tortured (French courtly affectations in the language are quaint but also make for long and convoluted terminology - notice that a text translated to French is always longer). K.I.S.S. xorg.conf: (snip for relevant) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "record" Load "dbe" Load "glx" Load "GLcore" Load "xtrap" Load "dri" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle" EndSection Questions: 3. This setup enables switching from the default us to what appears to be the French keyboard. The fr_CA has the accented characters assigned to normal keys while keeping most of the English keys normal; the French kbd needs two keypresses to get the accents. Tiresome, not so say dumb. 4. The toggle does not toggle; pressing right_Alt switches to fr but another rtAlt press does nothing. And other Alt combinations don't do anything except freeze the kbd and xterm has to be closed and thereafter the fr is not accessible without a reboot or one must use fluxbox menu to switch the keyboard. How to get the fr_CA instad of the fr? 5. Upon closing xorg, there are these messages: Failed to open file (/usr/local/share/fluxbox/nls/fr_CA.utf-8/fluxbox.cat)... (twice) Checking Google & fluxbox, it appears this file does not exist. Fluxbox simply has not included it in their distribution. Mayba Blackbox has it; I'll have to check. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Phil -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la plančte, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php