Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:30:43 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Christian Schmidt <Christian.Schmidt@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg, lightdm, xfce & German Keyboard Message-ID: <20200621143043.d1fa826f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <3e3de7a2-fe5a-ec9a-1755-dd1b3f383408@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> References: <636e8210-85df-6142-22c8-5393333494d3@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> <20200621101222.576d5977@archlinux> <92c75d0893dcbb9ba395b1e8352f02be25d45d7e.camel@riseup.net> <3e3de7a2-fe5a-ec9a-1755-dd1b3f383408@chemie.uni-hamburg.de>
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:59:16 +0200, Christian Schmidt wrote: > Good "morning" Ralf, ;-)) > > On 6/21/20 10:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I still didn't read/understand correctly. > > > > I apologize again! > > No, I have to apologize: I should have mentioned that I already defined > > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "system-keyboard" > MatchIsKeyboard "on" > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" > EndSection > > in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf. KB layout in general > works as expected - except from umlauts. I recently had the same problem after upgrading X - the keyboard settings for the german language in a /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ file did no longer work (nor did the keyboard work at all); I had to set them in a per-user manner using setxkbmap in ~/.xsession, as you already correctly did, with the exception that display managers don't read ~/.xinitrc, they use ~/.xsession (problem already solved). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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