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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:57:32 +0000
From:      Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: First time with freebsd and weird keyboard issue
Message-ID:  <1732633036752.1687134307.2902732100@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20241126113912.60714f63@tuxette>
References:  <20241126113912.60714f63@tuxette>

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Dominique Michel schrieb am Dienstag, 26. November 2024 11:39:12 (+01:00):

> Hi,
> 
> I am the main fvwm-crystal maintainer and I am working on adding
> freebsd support to it. To do that, I installed the last freebsd version
> and I saw a double issue with the keyboard.
> 
> First:
> In /etc/rc.conf
> keymap="ch-fr.acc.kbd"
> 
> In order to understand how to reproduce these issues, I do 2 test user
> accounts with different shells, sh and bash. With both of them, after
> login, the keyboard is working fine with the ttys.
> 
> Then I followed chapter 25 of the handbook and put in ~/.login_conf:
> me:\
> :charset=UTF-8:\
> :lang=fr_ch.UTF-8:
> 
> and ran  cap_mkdb ~/.login_conf

You only need to run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. Your ~/.login_conf is read
automatically upon login. By running cap_mkdb with your own login config
you probably messed up your environment.

Another run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf should fix it.



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