Subject: Re: Bug in wscons (was Re: wscons & xfree)
To: Eric Delcamp <e.delcamp@wanadoo.fr>
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 02/23/1999 22:39:19
You wrote (in your message from Tue 23)
> Hi,
>
> I just want to make a bug report for this, but if someone could confirm....
> I have a French keyboard and wscons. To get some characters (~#{[ | `\^@]}),
> french users need to press AltGr key. But sometime (well, 3 times on 4), I
> get nothing. A trick is to press quickly several keys to get them. From my
> kernel config :
>
> # wscons options
> #options WSEMUL_SUN # sun terminal emulation
> options WSEMUL_VT100 # VT100 / VT220 emulation
> # different kernel output - see dev/wscons/wsdisplayvar.h
> options WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN
> options WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_PCVT # emulate some ioctls
> options WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_SYSCONS # emulate some ioctls
> options WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_USL # VT handling
> options WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_RAWKBD # can get raw scancodes
> # see dev/pckbc/wskbdmap_mfii.c for implemented layouts
> options PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_FR)"
>
I'm using the same options as you on two machines with french
keyboards and I never saw this kind of problems (nor do I need to use
shift together with AltGr). --
Matthieu