On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 20:57, Miod Vallat wrote: > - when changing the keyboard layout of a particular keyboard with an > ioctl (i.e. using kbd(8) or wsconsctl(8)), the layout will become the > default layout of the mux for new keyboard attachments.
> Now I plug a Sun USB keyboard with the uk layout (pound sign as shift-3, > etc). Sun keyboards provide country information to the ukbd driver, > which uses it to select the matching layout. > > $ wsconsctl 2>/dev/null |grep encoding > keyboard.encoding=us > keyboard1.encoding=is > keyboard2.encoding=uk > > And the uk layout has become the default for new attachments. If I > unplug, then replug, the icelandic keyboard, it will reattach as wskbd1, > and it will pick the default mux layout, which is still icelandic. > > $ wsconsctl 2>/dev/null |grep encoding > keyboard.encoding=us > keyboard1.encoding=is > keyboard2.encoding=uk Something is inconsistent here. Do you mean the uk is not the default? Or there is a difference between mux default and new attach default? How does one know whether plugging a keyboard in is reattaching it or attachning a new one? I think you cleared this up a little in your later mail, but just checking.
