Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching - SOLVED

2009-05-01 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 01 May 2009 19:37:52 PJ wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> Have you tried running "setxkbmap ca multi"? > > Now, here's the weird stuff - ca multi works in Firefox... but not in > xterm so, the keyboard has to be set from fluxbox... works fine in > Inkscape, gnucash, abacus, so the real p

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 01 May 2009 19:24:04 PJ wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: >> On Fri, 01 May 2009 11:34:19 -0400 PJ wrote: >>> Section "ServerLayout" >>> Identifier "X.org Configured" >>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >>> InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" >>> InputDevice"Keyboard0

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching - SOLVED

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009 16:41:52 PJ wrote: > >> Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> >>> On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: >>> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & >

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 01 May 2009 11:34:19 -0400 PJ wrote: > >> Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> >>> On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: >>> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween u

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:04:34PM -0400, PJ wrote: > > [snip] > >>> Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY >>> If you have Canadian Multilingual Standard, this option needs to be set >>> to "ca(multi)". If you have Canadian French, set it to "ca" o

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:04:34PM -0400, PJ wrote: > [snip] > > > > > Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY > > If you have Canadian Multilingual Standard, this option needs to be set > > to "ca(multi)". If you have Canadian French, set it to "ca" or > > "ca(fr)". > > This

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 01 May 2009 11:34:19 -0400 PJ wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: > >> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I > >> am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & canadian > >> multi. > >> But the ca(multi) se

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: >> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I >> am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & canadian >> multi. >> But the ca(multi) setting does not work either alone or with the us >> for sw

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 01 May 2009 16:41:52 PJ wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: >>> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech >>> I am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & >>> canadian multi. >>> But the ca(multi) setting doe

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: > >> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I >> am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & canadian >> multi. >> But the ca(multi) setting does not work either alone or with the us >> f

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote: > The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I > am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & canadian > multi. > But the ca(multi) setting does not work either alone or with the us > for switching. The accent keys are

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 01 May 2009 09:11:02 -0400 PJ wrote: > >> Boris Samorodov wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:04:34 -0400 PJ wrote: >>> >>> Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: > >

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 01 May 2009 09:11:02 -0400 PJ wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:04:34 -0400 PJ wrote: > > > >> Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >> > >>> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: > >>> > Cool. Then I can ask some questions regarding all of this. > >>>

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:04:34 -0400 PJ wrote: > >> Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: >>> Cool. Then I can ask some questions regarding all of this. rc.conf: (snipped to show the relevant entries) fon

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-05-01 Thread PJ
Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 22:04:34 PJ wrote: >> Tijl Coosemans wrote: >>> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: xorg.conf: (snip for relevant) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-30 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 22:04:34 PJ wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: >>> xorg.conf: (snip for relevant) >>> Section "ServerLayout" >>> Identifier "X.org Configured" >>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" >>> InputDevice "K

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:04:34 -0400 PJ wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: > >> Cool. Then I can ask some questions regarding all of this. > >> > >> rc.conf: (snipped to show the relevant entries) > >> font8x16="iso15-8x16" > >> font8x14="iso15-8x14" > >>

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-29 Thread PJ
Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: >> Cool. Then I can ask some questions regarding all of this. >> >> rc.conf: (snipped to show the relevant entries) >> font8x16="iso15-8x16" >> font8x14="iso15-8x14" >> font8x8="iso15-8x8" >> allscreens_flags="VGA_80x60 cyan" >>

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-29 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote: > Cool. Then I can ask some questions regarding all of this. > > rc.conf: (snipped to show the relevant entries) > font8x16="iso15-8x16" > font8x14="iso15-8x14" > font8x8="iso15-8x8" > allscreens_flags="VGA_80x60 cyan" > rpcbind_enable="YES" > mountd_f

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-29 Thread PJ
Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 00:14:53 PJ wrote: > >> Oh, well, another day lost... but, I guess it's better to limp than >> not to walk at all. :-\ >> > > I think it would help if you posted your /etc/rc.conf and > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Those are the two files that need

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-29 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 00:14:53 PJ wrote: > Oh, well, another day lost... but, I guess it's better to limp than > not to walk at all. :-\ I think it would help if you posted your /etc/rc.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Those are the two files that need to change. _

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > Frank Shute wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote: >> >> >>> I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about >>> using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a >>> terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse sl

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > Frank Shute wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote: >> >> >>> I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about >>> using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a >>> terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse sl

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread PJ
Michael Powell wrote: > PJ wrote: > > >> I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about >> using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a >> terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or >> Quebeckers) or are we being neglected a

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread PJ
Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote: > >> I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about >> using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a >> terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or >> Que

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote: > > I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about > using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a > terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or > Quebeckers) or are we being neg

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: > I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about > using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a > terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or > Quebeckers) or are we being neglected and still considered "The White > Ni

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread PJ
Daniel Bye wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote: > > >> Anyway, everything I have tried does not work on FreeBSD or on xorg. >> > > What have you tried already? Are you using hald to autoconfigure Xorg, or > are you still using the static xorg.conf file? > > Dan > >

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote: > Anyway, everything I have tried does not work on FreeBSD or on xorg. What have you tried already? Are you using hald to autoconfigure Xorg, or are you still using the static xorg.conf file? Dan -- Daniel Bye

French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread PJ
I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or Quebeckers) or are we being neglected and still considered "The White Niggers of America"? ;-