Re: users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3

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 
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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
>>
>> Regards
> 
> 

Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising
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