On 2020-03-23 22:00, Niclas Zeising wrote: > In ports r528813 I switched FreeBSD 11 (including FreeBSD 11.3 and the ^^^^^^^^ This should be r529003, sorry about that. > upcoming 11.4) back to use the legacy rule set. This means that once > you have installed libxkbcommon 0.10.0_2 on FreeBSD 11, things should > work as normal, and the environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES does not > need to be changed. > > If you are on FreeBSD 12 or later, and are using xf96-input-keyboard, > you might still need to set this env variable. Please see the > instructions below. > > Regards > > On 2020-03-21 00:41, Niclas Zeising wrote: >> [ This is cross-posted across several mailing lists for maximum >> visibility. Please respect reply-to and keep replies to >> x11_at_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 >> >> Regards > > Regards -- Niclas ZeisingReceived on Mon Mar 23 2020 - 20:14:24 UTC
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