Re: users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3

21.03.2020 6:41, Niclas Zeising wrote:

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> 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
if OSVERSION notes 11.x at build time, so there would be no breakage for us building xorg from ports.

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