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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
>
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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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