Re: libinput recognizies my keyboard, but not its arrow keys

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:20:17 -0500
William Bulley <web@umich.edu> wrote:

> According to Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> on Mon, 01/29/24 at
> 14:55:
> > 
> > Did you try if it works directly after running each of the commands
> > or did you restart x11?  
> 
> I believe I said that I restarted x11 each time (I placed these extra
> commands in my .xinitrc in which I had an original setxkbmap command)
> 
> > These settings change the running x11 session and take immediate
> > effect, restating x11 will start with your defaults and is not
> > required for this test.  
> 
> So, okay, in a brand new xterm I tried to edit a multiline file.
> 
> I verified that moving around in this file using my arrow keys
> did not work.
> 
> Then in that same xterm window I issued each of those above three
> commands in turn, each time going back to edit that file and try
> to move around within that file using the arrow keys.
> 
> None of that effort made any change in the action of my arrow keys.
> 
> > If this doesn't help, I would suggest to start without any specific
> > xorg.conf file(a) (just move it out of the way) and see if the
> > defaults (in combination with one of setxkbmap commands) does the
> > trick.  
> 
> Believe me when I say that was exactly what I did when trying to get
> any x11 session to appear on my monitor.  With an empty /etc/X11 and
> empty /usr/local/etc/X11/worg.conf.d directory(s) I could not get x11
> to work.
> 
> > Sharing you xorg log won't hurt either.  
> 
> I did that in answer to another op's reply.  Thanks again.
> 

It's always a bit hard to support remotely, hence my questions to be
crystal clear what you tried.

This is what I use in in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-myinput.conf:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "XkbRules" "evdev"
#       Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "MiddleEmulation" "on"
        Option "DisableWhileTyping" "off"
EndSection

(the touchpad section is probably not what you need).


So maybe - as a last "simple" solution, you could try:

  setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us

in your .xinitrc and place 99-myinput.conf from above as the only
xorg configuration in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Best
Michael

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Michael Gmelin