Re: xkb

[Dmitry V. Zhulanov]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:45:21PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> elf@land5.nsu.ru (Dmitry V. Zhulanov) writes:
> 
> This is the debug output I told you about in my previous mail.  Did
> you include 2>/dev/null.  Perhaps I did not use stderr, can you try
> adding >/dev/null too?
Yes, now cursor stay on correct position.
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> But was it caused by the relative path?  It works now?
Not it was not case, it was a missing --keymap argument.
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> The fonts are loaded using the vga plugin, see:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200209/msg00054.html
It seems that --font argument passed to console client, and console
starting fails with message:
# console -d vga --font=8x13.bdf -d xkb --keymapfile=keymap/hurd
# --xkbdir=/etc/X11/xkb --keymap=ru /dev/vcs
console unrecognized option `--font=8x13.bdf'
Try `console --help' ...

> The encoding is explained there too.  Just using UTF-8 in the console
> server.  (settrans -afgp /dev/vcs /hurd/console --encoding=UTF-8)
# showtrans /dev/vcs
/hurd/console --encoding=UTF-8

> 
> Set your own locate to a UTF-8 locale as well and start the console
> client.  There are still some problems with this, the console client
> does not correctly switch to the right locale, I'll fix this soon.
> This will cause that locale dependent capitalization not working
> correctly.
# export LC_ALL=ru
# console .. -d xkbd .. --keymap=ru /dev/vcs
Is this correct?

> 
> But how well does it work now?  Same for the Russian keymap and
> output, etc?
Now it works fine. I think is even more stable than pc_kbd driver :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco