From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Fri Mar 20 23:41:56 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AB927612F for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (mailman.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::50:13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48kgKc2yR7z4LG0 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 620C827612A; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: stable@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61522276127; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.daemonic.se (mail.daemonic.se [IPv6:2607:f740:d:20::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48kgKb4t6Rz4LFh; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: from cid.daemonic.se (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48kgKR4kvMz3m0D; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daemonic.se Received: from mail.daemonic.se ([127.0.0.1]) (using TLS with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256) by cid.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10587) with ESMTPS id Zv4qqwdcFmQ0; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from garnet.daemonic.se (84-216-103-136.customers.ownit.se [84.216.103.136]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 48kgKR0fvzz3lcX; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:47 +0000 (UTC) To: x11@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: x11@FreeBSD.org From: Niclas Zeising Subject: users of xorg, in particular on FreeBSD 11.3 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:41:46 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48kgKb4t6Rz4LFh X-Spamd-Bar: + Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.38 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[freebsd.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.94)[0.940,0]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.44)[0.435,0]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36236, ipnet:2607:f740:d::/48, country:US] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:41:56 -0000 [ This is cross-posted across several mailing lists for maximum visibility. Please respect reply-to and keep replies to x11@FreeBSD.org . Thank you! ] In order to improve support when using evdev to manage input devices, in particular keyboards, we have switched the default in x11/libxkbcommon to the evdev instead of the legacy ruleset. This was done in ports r528813 . On FreeBSD 11.3, the default configuration still requires the legacy ruleset. If you are using FreeBSD 11.3, or if you are using xf86-input-keyboard on FreeBSD 12 or later, you need to change the ruleset used by x11/libxkbcommon. If you have issues with your keyboard, most notably arrow keys, and if /var/log/Xorg.*.log shows that the "kbd" or "keyboard" driver is being used, you need to switch to legacy rules by setting the environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES to xorg. The easiest way to accomplish this is by adding it to your shell startup file. As an example, for users of [t]csh, put setenv XKB_DEFAULT_RULES xorg in ~/.login For users of bourne type shells (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) instead put export XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=xorg in ~/.profile Regards -- Niclas Zeising FreeBSD Graphics Team