users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3
Rodney W. Grimes
freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Sat Mar 21 02:25:53 UTC 2020
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Killed cc list, then added re@ as this directly concerns the 11.4
release upcoming.
What would be the best way to handle this for the 11.4 release?
Thanks,
Rod
>
> 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
>
> Regards
> --
> Niclas Zeising
> FreeBSD Graphics Team
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