Re: First time with freebsd and weird keyboard issue

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 10:20:26 +0100
Dominique Michel <dominique.c.michel@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:57:32 +0000,
> Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org> a écrit :
> 
> > Dominique Michel schrieb am Dienstag, 26. November 2024 11:39:12
> > (+01:00):
> >   
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am the main fvwm-crystal maintainer and I am working on adding
> > > freebsd support to it. To do that, I installed the last freebsd
> > > version and I saw a double issue with the keyboard.
> > > 
> > > First:
> > > In /etc/rc.conf
> > > keymap="ch-fr.acc.kbd"

This is for console keyboard, it has nothing to do with X11.

> > > In order to understand how to reproduce these issues, I do 2 test
> > > user accounts with different shells, sh and bash. With both of
> > > them, after login, the keyboard is working fine with the ttys.
> > > 
> > > Then I followed chapter 25 of the handbook and put in
> > > ~/.login_conf: me:\
> > > :charset=UTF-8:\
> > > :lang=fr_ch.UTF-8:
> > > 
> > > and ran  cap_mkdb ~/.login_conf    

That's essentially shell-independet setting of locale environment
variables.

> > You only need to run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. Your ~/.login_conf is
> > read automatically upon login. By running cap_mkdb with your own
> > login config you probably messed up your environment.  
> 
> I  followed the handbook: 25.2.1.1. Login Classes Method
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/l10n/#login-class
> 
> "i Note:	
> 
> For an end user, the cap_mkdb command will need to be run on their
> ~/.login_conf for any changes to take effect."
> 
> > 
> > Another run cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf should fix it.
> >   
> 
> Anyway, I ran that command 1 more time as root and commented out the
> 'me: ....' stuff in ~/.login_conf. It works fine at the tty, but after
> startx, that change nothing.

Yep, because $LANG alone is not enough for full X11 l10n.

> I found a workaround, it is to install lightdm and start fvwn-crystal
> with it. And finally, I found a fix. It is to restore the 'me:...'
> stuff and add in .xinitrc:
> 
> setxkbmap -layout 'ch(fr)' -model pc105 -option
>  terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,keypad:pointerkeys
> 
> Note the single quotes around the layout and the ().

Without language variables you'll only get keyboard with this and not
messages, time etc. stuff, e.g. `ls -l` month names in xterm

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