First time with freebsd and weird keyboard issue
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:39:12 UTC
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" 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 After logout and login, the keyboard stopped to work well in both accounts. I get the correct language map (keys like q and z are at the right place), composed keys like [ and { are fine, but the same keys as simple keys à and è (the accented keys) doesn't work anymore, they are dead. If I comment these lines in .login_conf and remove the file generated by cap_mkdb, the keyboard is working fine again. As a freebsd newbie, maybe I missed something, but I think that issue should be reported to you anyway. # # # Launching fvwm-crystal with fvwm3 (or fvwm2) via startx, I get an even weirder keyboard issue, see https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/wrong-keyboard-map-in-x.95778/ Best, Dominique