Re: xkb

[Marco Gerards]

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.

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?

>> 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?

>> 
>> 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

Oh, my fault.  I think that old version requires you to start the
console client where the "Compose" file can be found.

>> 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

The encoding is explained there too.  Just using UTF-8 in the console
server.  (settrans -afgp /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.

But how well does it work now?  Same for the Russian keymap and
output, etc?

Thanks,
Marco