From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 12 18:50:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24A8106566B for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:50:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688F48FC08 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBCIoXNA016281; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id nBCIoX8V016278; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20091212175406.39dbcb8e.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <20091212175406.39dbcb8e.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: Carmel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:50:36 -0000 On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:01 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: >> Normally, the user shouldn't have to create XML files. > > If they intended to use another than default english keyboard > layout... well, creating the correspoinding XML file as shown > in the handbook seemed to be the way to go. I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already too long. Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards. Maybe there's a mechanism in hal to detect preferred keyboard layout from the LANG setting. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA