Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 06:36:48 +0100 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3 Message-ID: <wo7e-2rrj-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <a78415f4-131a-8e25-ae22-a161eecf7493__46478.2214885176$1584748647$gmane$org@grosbein.net> (Eugene Grosbein's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 2020 06:55:59 %2B0700") References: <fcad26a1-e678-3da1-3c4f-3781cb73650a@freebsd.org> <a78415f4-131a-8e25-ae22-a161eecf7493__46478.2214885176$1584748647$gmane$org@grosbein.net>
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Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> writes: > 21.03.2020 6:41, Niclas Zeising wrote: > >> [ This is cross-posted across several mailing lists for maximum >> visibility. Please respect reply-to and keep replies to >> x11@FreeBSD.org . Thank you! ] >> >> In order to improve support when using evdev to manage input >> devices, in particular keyboards, we have switched the default in >> x11/libxkbcommon to the evdev instead of the legacy ruleset. This >> was done in ports r528813 . >> >> On FreeBSD 11.3, the default configuration still requires the legacy ruleset. >> >> If you are using FreeBSD 11.3, or if you are using >> xf86-input-keyboard on FreeBSD 12 or later, you need to change the >> ruleset used by x11/libxkbcommon. >> >> If you have issues with your keyboard, most notably arrow keys, and >> if /var/log/Xorg.*.log shows that the "kbd" or "keyboard" driver is >> being used, you need to switch to legacy rules by setting the >> environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES to xorg. >> >> The easiest way to accomplish this is by adding it to your shell startup file. >> >> As an example, for users of [t]csh, put >> setenv XKB_DEFAULT_RULES xorg >> in ~/.login >> >> For users of bourne type shells (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) instead put >> export XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=xorg >> in ~/.profile > > Please consider improving x11/libxkbcommon so that it uses -Ddefault-rules=xorg x11/libxkbcommon is also used by Wayland e.g., in x11-toolkits/gtk30. libinput as used by Wayland doesn't support anything but evdev. If one enabled evdev(4) on FreeBSD 11.* then Wayland may work after applying https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/pull/213 > if OSVERSION notes 11.x at build time, so there would be no breakage for us building xorg from ports. Did you mean from binary packages? If someone builds xorg-server from ports it's probably due to non-default options. However, the ports framework doesn't support checking ports options set in other ports e.g., dependencies.
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