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OpenBSD keyboard layouts
While installing OpenBSD 4.6 there was a question where i had to select keyboard layout.
Problem is, there is no my keyboard layout which I usually use. That is "hr" ( I am from Croatia). I know that it is possible to use it under FreeBSD so I'm wondering is there a way to get more of these layouts, so I can get that one. I know it's no big deal, but it really is pain in the... especially when it comes to programming where I have to type all kind of characters. Thanx! |
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Adding additional layouts will require that you patch & recompile the kernel, I'm not aware of any Croatian (Hrvatski) patches yet.
I do believe the following files require modification, the kbd(8) program may also require some changes.. as well as reinstall the system header files. /usr/sys/dev/pckbc/wskbdmap_mfii.c /usr/src/sys/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h Example of adding new layouts, this was sent to the tech@ list in 2003. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=104153165920094&w=2 You may wish to obtain a US or British keyboard, for the time being anyway. I do believe keyboard layouts can be configured separately in Xorg, which would be another workaround solution. Hope that helps. |
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I wouldn't call "simple design" by lack of functionalities. Simple desgin may have a lot of functionalities. It is the same reason that OpenBSD doesn't have reach locale support as NetBSD- simply lack of time and hands to work. This is the rason not a design.
A someone who writes programms may also use web browser to write in locale language/key board mapping- both things come toghether. Anyway lack of support of key maps is a fact. Pitty NetBSD and OpenBSD doesn't have such good supprot as FreeBSD (what about working framebuffer). Piotr. |
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$ setxkbmap -option compose:ralt (You can use other keys instead of ralt too.) Now I can type, e.g., "alt D -" and get that D with a line through it. I do wish OpenBSD supported locales, so I could type arbitrary Unicode characters with Compose. On the Linux boxes at school, for example, I can type arrow keys or smart quotes easy, because their compose supports more than 255 characters. There was a guy who did some work on it, so it's not impossible. I hope to see reasonable locale support in OpenBSD within a few years.
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Users have no say in the direction the OpenBSD project takes. If leverage exists, it is in the ability to provide code for consideration, or the ability to contribute funds and/or hardware to the project requesting such features.
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Why do you think I didn't complain to the list? I'm confident that since someone smarter than me has released some code for it, it'll make it into OpenBSD eventually.
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