Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:00:42 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching Message-ID: <200904301200.44224.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <49F8B2D2.40409@videotron.ca> References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <200904291933.04052.tijl@ulyssis.org> <49F8B2D2.40409@videotron.ca>
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On Wednesday 29 April 2009 22:04:34 PJ wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: >>> 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" >> >> This might have to be pc105, but it probably doesn't matter. >> >>> Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca" >> >> Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY >> If you have Canadian Multilingual Standard, this option needs to be >> set to "ca(multi)". If you have Canadian French, set it to "ca" or >> "ca(fr)". > > This does not set it to the Canadian French; nor can I find anything > that does... only my lame setup works using the French azerty (which > is rather a pain because it involves complicated finger moves to get > the accented characters - I'm familiar with it and can use it; it's > just a pita. It works for me. What if you run "setxkbmap ca" or "setxkbmap ca multi" in an X terminal? Do you then get "azerty" when you type "qwerty"?
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