On 1/23/14, Miod Vallat <m...@online.fr> wrote: >> 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? > > There is a difference between a keyboard which can provide accurate > layout information, and one which can not. > > The Sun USB keyboard provides accurate layout information, and will > always attach with the layout computed from this information, because > this matches the writings on the key caps. (and power-users know enough > to override that after the keyboard has been connected) > > The other keyboard do not know their actual layout, and thus the > keyboard driver attaches with `I'd like the default layout, please, and > if there isn't, please give me the us layout'. > > If there has been a default layout set on the mux (with kbd or > wsconsctl, or with a ``strong knowledge'' keyboard being plugged before) > before this cheap keyboard attaches, then it will get that layout. > Otherwise it will get the us default. > > There is no way to please all users here. Some people will prefer > keyboards to always attach as `us' layout, and only change the > international keyboard they might connect for a while, and some people, > on the other hand, will expect further keyboards to reuse the last-used > layout. > > (And that's only in console. X is another nightma^Wstory)
Yes! After I sent my question/comments on CapsLock, I recalled a post about it some time ago. I can go dig it up ... OK dug. the gist of it was that X changed, where it used to allow multiple keyboard layouts when multiple keyboards were attached, but at some point this stopped (IIRC): This is Alexandr Shadchin's answer to me from Oct 2011: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=131844441205625&w=2 and this later from him as well: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=131851950413336&w=2 To be honest, I don't think heard back nor have I attempted testing this. --patrick
