Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 00:48:09 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Edward Shabotinsky <evs@telod.net>, Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@csie.nctu.edu.tw>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.2 with FreeBSD 6.2 on T41 keyboard failure Message-ID: <200705260048.11028.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <46575B14.8030902@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070523071200.GA53716@freebsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <200705252333.53650.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <46575B14.8030902@FreeBSD.org>
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On Friday 25 May 2007 23:54:28 Doug Barton wrote: > Dejan Lesjak wrote: > > On Friday 25 May 2007 23:21:32 Doug Barton wrote: > >> Ying-Chieh Liao wrote: > >>> ok, I got this fixed by defining a env var > >>> XKEYSYMDB=/usr/local/share/X11/XKeysymDB > >>> everything goes well now > >> > >> D'oh, should have read further in the thread, sorry. This solution > >> works for me if I set the environment variable in the shell before > >> typing 'startx', but doesn't work if I just put it in my xinitrc file. > >> Weird. > >> > >> Anyone on the x11 team want to comment on this one? > > > > Well... > > With modular ports we install some files in /usr/local/share/X11 and some > > in /usr/local/lib/X11. In this particular case, the server expects them > > to be in /usr/local/lib/X11. I'm not decided on whether we should move > > all in lib or modify default search path in server. Having them in lib > > mirrors previous location in /usr/X11R6 (where also mergebase script will > > move any custom app-defaults for example), but having such files in share > > feels a bit more intuitive... > > Interestingly we seem to face the opposite problem with the rgb file. What do you mean? rgb.txt installs under /usr/local/lib/X11 where server expects to find it. Are you saying it searches for it in /usr/local/share/X11 or that you got it installed in there? > My vote would be to put everything where the existing code expects it > to be by default. But I'm not doing the work, so feel free to ignore > me. :) You mean in /usr/local/lib/X11? That will probably be best, yes. Dejan
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