From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 19:20:44 2011 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 4E3401065670 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:20:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BA48FC0C for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ROaAs-0002G2-1H for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:20:34 +0100 Received: from c-82-209-158-57.cust.bredband2.com ([82.209.158.57]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:20:34 +0100 Received: from mc by c-82-209-158-57.cust.bredband2.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:20:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Cardell Widerkrantz Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:20:21 +0100 Organization: Temple of the Moby Hack Lines: 28 Message-ID: <86lirniy2y.fsf@kropotkin.hack.org> References: <4EB88225.9020702@bredband.net> <20111108205600.7a8e0205.freebsd@edvax.de> <20111108215114.24d336e6.freebsd@edvax.de> <4EBA5EBD.7020501@bredband.net> <86pqh1njww.fsf@kropotkin.hack.org> <30329CB5-03FA-4717-81E6-43CC9CE43713@mac.com> <86ipmsl1ee.fsf@kropotkin.hack.org> <0953CCAB-C764-413C-9A13-ED5E77D1AEC4@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-82-209-158-57.cust.bredband2.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qHqXnXiJkr77WW6UoavvgxcX41o= Subject: Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost. 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: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:20:44 -0000 Chuck Swiger , 2011-11-10 20:12 (+0100): > Different keycaps means a different product SKU, at least. If they use > the same USB product ID Yes. I think this is a quite common scenario. > FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be > willing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks > would appreciate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY > keyboard layout means French, that JIS means Japanese, that QWERTZ > probably indicates German / Swiss / Hungarian, etc. Certainly. > To my mind, though, that's a fallback for when you have a KVM or a > PS/2-to-USB converter or suchlike in the way that prevents the device > from being correctly recognized. Or when you have, say, a keyboard that physically is an ANSI keyboard (one less physical key compared to ISO keyboards) but still want, say, a Swedish keymap or, indeed, your very own keymap, unlike any other. Like me when I'm using one of my Happy Hacking Keyboards. Topre switches FTW! -- http://hack.org/mc/ Plain text e-mails, please. HTML messages sent to me are silently deleted. OpenPGP welcome, 0xE4C92FA5.