Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:39:12 +0100 From: Dominique Michel <dominique.c.michel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: First time with freebsd and weird keyboard issue Message-ID: <20241126113912.60714f63@tuxette>
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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=3D"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=3DUTF-8:\
:lang=3Dfr_ch.UTF-8:
and ran cap_mkdb ~/.login_conf
After logout and login, the keyboard stopped to work well in both
accounts. I get the correct language map (keys like q and z are at the
right place), composed keys like [ and { are fine, but the same keys as
simple keys =C3=A0 and =C3=A8 (the accented keys) doesn't work anymore, the=
y are
dead.
If I comment these lines in .login_conf and remove the file generated by
cap_mkdb, the keyboard is working fine again.
As a freebsd newbie, maybe I missed something, but I think that issue
should be reported to you anyway.
# # #
Launching fvwm-crystal with fvwm3 (or fvwm2) via startx, I get an even
weirder keyboard issue,
see https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/wrong-keyboard-map-in-x.95778/
Best,
Dominique
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