keyboard layout

Context: I am using a Keychron K3 mac keyboard uk layout. The keys match the uk.mac keyboard layout in freebsd however the option key modifier does not work. For example Option+3 should produce a hashtag symbol however when pressed it produces nothing or the shift+3 combination (£). I am using...

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...

Hello there, I've been wanting to try out FreeBSD for a while now but I've ran into a problem when it comes to setting up the keyboard layout. When I choose the czech keyboard (qwertz with accent keys) I have the following problems - 1) The only accent letters that appear are the áíéú keys...

Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 13.1, latest X.Org and Lumina, configured X.Org’s Spanish keyboard layout as shown here https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-config (point 5.4.7.1., example 7) and when I start X, the keyboard is absolutely messed up. On vt the keyboard is OK; it’s only...

Potentially strange question, but I'm trying to customize a secondary keyboard on a FreeBSD machine. I have a standard keyboard, that I'd like to have behave as a "normal" keyboard. Then I have this bizarre hand-shaped keyboard, the Belkin n52te, that I'd like to use for controlling Open...

Hi, I'm experimenting with geli encryption on a spare laptop. I've activated ZFS root encryption from the FreeBSD installer. I'm using a french keyboard layout. After POST, Geli prompts me for the passphrase with a US keyboard layout. That's annoying. I've set the...

Hello, I have tried changing the screen resolution with vidcontrol but I got an error: module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff8251100, 0) error 19 sysctl_unregister_oid: failed to unregister sysctl With this reply, I changed my console mode from vt to sc and I successfully changed my...

I have an Obins Anne Pro v1 70% keyboard, I want to use it simultaneously with a normal Logitech one. The Logitech keyboard has a Hungarian layout. I changed the layout to United States America with kbdmap and connected the keyboard with an USB cable. The layout is totally off. I got "a" in the...

Hello FreeBSD community, I like to run FreeBSD 12.1 on VMware Fusion on a Mac Mini. The install itself is pretty easy to follow. During the install process I choose a german keyboard layout. When the installation process is finished, and I log in to e.g. XFCE the keyboard layout does not work...

You can change the layout on an external keyboard without changing your built in keyboards layout using setxkbmap You use the xinput command to list the external keyboard id, however running xinput on Freebsd didnt show my external keyboard but running xinput on linux worked Ive had to switch...