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Keyboard backlighting for typing in the dark, for coolness and/or for gaming. For controlling individual LED lights, there's xset (different from xsetroot): led xset led named "Scroll Lock" x11/xset is also used for controlling power management (DPMS) for monitors (standby/suspend/on/off)...

Hi, I just installed freebsd on a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD. I had to disable uart1 (hint.uart.1.disabled="1") and then was able to install, but from the installer on, the keyboard is slow. It takes 0,2 to 0,5 seconds to register me typing a key. And it misses some if I do not wait. Any...

I have been setting up freebsd the past few days and can't find a fix for my keyboard issue. My laptop keyboad and trackpad work when typing in the hard drive password and the boot menu. Once in the terminal both stop working, but a usb keyboard does work. dmesg recognizes them. Was wondering if...

Sometimes (presumably when pressing certain keyboard keys) I get a desktop notification about Sticky Keys being disabled. As far as I know Sticky Keys isn't being enabled, I never enabled it, and Xfce Settings -> Accessibility has everything unchecked/disabled. I've seen suggestions with Linux...

xkb swap sterling £ and numbersign # on a gb keyboard https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/tree/master/xkb/xkb-swap-sterling-numbersign https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-dotfiles-xps/tree/master/.config/xkb i use a mac gb keyboard layout default layout pressing shift + 3...

Im trying to get the multimedia keys (volume, brightness) working on Apple Keyboards on a Macbook Air 2011 and Macbook Pro Retina 2015 The function keys work as function keys but pressing the fn key and then the function keys doesnt trigger the multimedia keys The keyboard layout is correctly...

When I booted FreeBSD my USB keyboard wouldn't work. Num Lock light was on and wouldn't respond to Num Lock toggle presses. Unplugging and plugging the USB keyboard back just produced the same situation, Num Lock diode stuck in on mode, nothing working. So I stopped using FreeBSD as my desktop...

Every time I start KDE 5 in FreeBSD 14, the keyboard layout is loaded as US, although I've set FI (=Finnish) as the only keyboard layout to be loaded in System Settings / Input Devices / Keyboard / Layouts. I can only change the layout in Terminal with setxkbmap fi, or making changes to the...

Hey! What's up! I need to switch from US keyboard layout to Spanish. How can I do that in FreeBSD 14. I tested another solutions on the forum but not working, so. Thank you for your reply!

After installing GhostBSD, selected keyboard layout was used in X/xorg, but not in console. According to this vt is the current default console. Keyboard layout is in /usr/share/vt/keymap/colemak.acc.kbd Solution: edit /etc/defaults/rc.conf keymap="colemak.acc.kbd" and /etc/rc.conf...

Hi all, I just received my brand new 8BitDo Retro Keyboard and connected it to my machine running FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p5. The problem is that L-SHIFT, R-SHIFT, L-CTRL, R-CTRL, L-WIN, R-WIN, R-ALT, L-ALT, and the two special A and B key on the keyboard and the external A and B buttons does not...

Hello, I have tried several times to install FreeBSD on my Dell computer but I have a problem. Once the system installation is complete, I install xorg and then KDE. I install following the FreeBSD documentation. Throughout the installation, my keyboard and mouse work fine. When I reboot after...

Hi, Today I got my Keychron Q3 mechanical keyboard, and I have to say this peripheral works on FreeBSD 13.1 RELEASE amd64. Check this: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mechanical-keyboard-keychron-k2-v2-works-on-fbsd-13-1.87782/ and this...

Hello everyone, I know this topic has been discussed several times before, but the problem is still remaining. The Client computer, accessing a VM via VNC still needs to be in QWERTY in order to access another keyboard in the VM. This problem has been fixed on illumos with -K option. I know...

Hi all, What I am looking for is a method to view the screen of another machine via VNC,X11 Forwarding or other method but I want to type on that screen with a keyboard that is physically attached to the machine. Here the setup: Machine 1 with screen1 (and keyboard1) Machine 2 without screen2...

Hello, I am troubleshooting to get a drawing pad to work on FreeBSD. When I uninstall the pkg "libwacom" and do a reboot, the mouse and keyboard does not work at all. https://www.freshports.org/x11/libwacom I have to boot into single user mode and reinstall libwacom and then everything works...

HID devices include keyboards, gamepads/joysticks, penpads/touchpads, mice... This can be for any type of HID device, from the old architecture, from x86-input, from the newer driver architecture, from Antimicro or Bluetooth. Any HID that runs on FreeBSD. Even plans on what to do with it. Or...

Enabling usbhid usbhid gives the ability to use newer advanced hid drivers. The ability to use usbhid must be turned on from /boot/loader.conf: hw.usb.usbhid.enable="1" Then, load the driver through /etc/rc.conf: kld_list="usbhid" Turning this module on from /boot/loader.conf won't work. Once...

When I try to type capital letters on bhyve guest windows10 I got messages "Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xffe5", and Only lowercase letters are printed. My script start windows10 is as follows: #!/bin/sh bhyve -c 1 -m 2G -w -H -s 0,hostbridge \ -s 2,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/zroot/win10disk1 \ -s...

Hello, I am trying to build QMK firmware for a kyboard and I was following this guide. For FreeBSD it says to run the command pkg install -g "py*-qmk". However I can't find any packaged related to QMK. I've tried pkg search qmk and it's returns nothing. So I tried installing Python 3, running...