Re: xkb

[Dmitry V. Zhulanov]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:33:49PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> elf@land5.nsu.ru (Dmitry V. Zhulanov) writes:
> 
> console -d vga -d xkb --keymapfile=keymap/hurd --xkbdir=/etc/X11/xkb --keymap 
> en_US /dev/vcs 2>/dev/null
It works! but cursor positioned bottom left coner, and show on right
position only while cursor moving or I print something.

> The Compose file should not be copied to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/compose,
> those files are not compatible.  Can you restore the old one?
The old one does not exist when I copy Compose. I did that because,
console with xkb driver exited with "not found symobols/compose"
message.

> 
> The Compose file should be used in another way, like I explained in
> the README.
xkb-0.3/README doesn contain any info about compose files

> 
> I think this problem was caused by the keymapfile argument, it
> should've been relative.
> 
> I hope to release the new xkb plugin later this month.  This one does
> not have the stupid debug output (this causes the cursor to move, fix
> this with 2>/dev/null).  And the new version will have support for the
2>/dev/null does not help on my hurd, it move anyway.
> XFree 4.3 syntax.  I will try to clean the code up and add
> accessibility support (AccessX in XFree).
> 
> Please keep testing it, I really appreciate that.  It is still under
> active development and testing will help a lot.
I will. Also i would like to test russian encodings and fonts. Can you
say, where I can get documentation related xkb encoding cheme, and
font loading process?

> Thanks,
> Marco
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