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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2024 10:20:26 +0100
From:      Dominique Michel <dominique.c.michel@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: First time with freebsd and weird keyboard issue
Message-ID:  <20241203100237.5623fcf0@tuxette>
In-Reply-To: <1732633036752.1687134307.2902732100@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20241126113912.60714f63@tuxette> <1732633036752.1687134307.2902732100@FreeBSD.org>

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Le Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:57:32 +0000,
Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> a =C3=A9crit :

> Dominique Michel schrieb am Dienstag, 26. November 2024 11:39:12
> (+01:00):
>=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > First:
> > In /etc/rc.conf
> > keymap=3D"ch-fr.acc.kbd"
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > Then I followed chapter 25 of the handbook and put in ~/.login_conf:
> > me:\
> > :charset=3DUTF-8:\
> > :lang=3Dfr_ch.UTF-8:
> >=20
> > and ran  cap_mkdb ~/.login_conf =20
>=20
> 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.

I  followed the handbook: 25.2.1.1. Login Classes Method
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/l10n/#login-class

"i Note:=09

For an end user, the cap_mkdb command will need to be run on their
~/.login_conf for any changes to take effect."

>=20
> Another run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf should fix it.
>=20

Anyway, I ran that command 1 more time as root and commented out the
'me: ....' stuff in ~/.login_conf. It works fine at the tty, but after
startx, that change nothing.

I found a workaround, it is to install lightdm and start fvwn-crystal
with it. And finally, I found a fix. It is to restore the 'me:...'
stuff and add in .xinitrc:

setxkbmap -layout 'ch(fr)' -model pc105 -option
 terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,keypad:pointerkeys

Note the single quotes around the layout and the ().

Dominique



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