Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:11:25 +0200 (EET) From: "Giorgos Kapetanakis" <zoulou@sians.org> To: "Laganakos Vassilis" <elfshadow@physics.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 6.9 - Greek Keyboard Layout - FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <53159.62.74.66.254.1138723885.squirrel@webmail.sians.org> In-Reply-To: <20060130220105.GA3260@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> References: <20060130220105.GA3260@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr>
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On Tue, January 31, 2006 12:01 am, Laganakos Vassilis wrote: > Hello, > > I use two layouts on X, English and Greek. I use the following lines in > xorg.conf to switch between those two: > > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "acpi" > Option "XkbLayout" "us,el" > Option "XkbOptions" grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,altwin:menu" > > This worked just fine until I port-upgraded to X.org 6.9 last week. > It was compiled and installed correctly. Whe I tried to start X I > noticed that I couldn't switch to the Greek layout, and I could not > switch to to console with the Alt-Ctrl-F? key combination. When I exited > the > X mode, I saw the following message: > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > > Error: Can't find file "pc/el" for symbols include > > Exiting > > Abandoning symbols file "basic" > > Abandoning symbols file "default" > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > > > So I was forced to comment out the last two of those lines in xorg.conf > and use only English. Greek are can be displayed in any program or Web > page, > but I cannot type in greek. > > Thanx, > > Vassilis > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It's not FreeBSD's issue, it's X.org's. The greek sybols file is no longer "el", but "gr". Just type: # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc # ln -s gr el and everything should work fine ;) -- Giorgos Kapetanakis
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