Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-18 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Sunday 18 July 2010 01:08:30, Dale a écrit : Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 July 2010 22:17:32 Stéphane Guedon wrote: See how fantastic this is? See how this conforms to The One True (Unix) Way? See how it looks nothing like XML (invented by a Windows user, obviously),

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:08:30 -0500, Dale wrote: People seem to forget tho that I have told people to try to use hal, Yes, but only people you dislike :P -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:08:30 -0500, Dale wrote: People seem to forget tho that I have told people to try to use hal, Yes, but only people you dislike :P I don't dislike anybody tho. Hal does work for quite a few people. It just doesn't work for some

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-17 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Wednesday 14 July 2010 16:44:45, Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user !

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-17 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:29:43, Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev).

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-17 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:29:43, Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev).

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 July 2010 22:17:32 Stéphane Guedon wrote: See how fantastic this is? See how this conforms to The One True (Unix) Way? See how it looks nothing like XML (invented by a Windows user, obviously), and actually looks a lot like perl with regexes? On second

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 July 2010 22:17:32 Stéphane Guedon wrote: See how fantastic this is? See how this conforms to The One True (Unix) Way? See how it looks nothing like XML (invented by a Windows user, obviously), and actually looks a lot like perl with regexes? On

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le lundi 12 juillet 2010 10:31:34, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you tell it to use a particular keyboard layout? 19:18:09 steph...@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $ cat

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user ! Dale, here's your chance to jump in and comment. This user

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user ! Dale, here's your chance to jump

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules (without relation to udev). But I don't like udev, its

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:19:25 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you tell it to use a particular keyboard layout? 19:18:09 steph...@luciole:/etc/udev/rules.d $ cat 61-x11-input.rules SUBSYSTEM!=input, GOTO=x11_input_end

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-11 Thread Ronan Mainbourg
If you use a recent version of xorg-server (= 1.8) you can enable the udev use flag, and disable the flag hal. Hal usage with xorg is clearly deprecated now, and its complete removal from xorg-server is scheduled soon, as it will be eventually replaced by the new abstraction layer from

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-11 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le jeudi 08 juillet 2010 01:13:56, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:19:14 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Until your version of Xorg stops supporting HAL, when you will need an xorg.conf. You can also pass through udev ! How? I know how to use udev for device recognition,

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-08 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:23:13 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Set in in xorg.conf. there's a thread on the forums that deals with this using HAL fdi files, but those are not deprecated for Xorg. Whoops, don't know how that not crept in, HAL

[gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread alain . didierjean
I log in thru kdm. As I'm french, I have an azerty keyboard. By default, kdm use a qwerty keymap. That's a problem when it comes to entering passwords. How do I get kdm launched with an azerty keymap ? (nothing relevant found in kdmrc).

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:56:17 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: I log in thru kdm. As I'm french, I have an azerty keyboard. By default, kdm use a qwerty keymap. That's a problem when it comes to entering passwords. How do I get kdm launched with an azerty keymap ? (nothing relevant found

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:56:17 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: I log in thru kdm. As I'm french, I have an azerty keyboard. By default, kdm use a qwerty keymap. That's a problem when it comes to entering passwords. How do I get kdm launched

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:23:13 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Set in in xorg.conf. there's a thread on the forums that deals with this using HAL fdi files, but those are not deprecated for Xorg. Whoops, don't know how that not crept in, HAL is deprecated for Xorg.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:19:14 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Until your version of Xorg stops supporting HAL, when you will need an xorg.conf. You can also pass through udev ! How? I know how to use udev for device recognition, but how do you tell it to use a particular keyboard layout?