xfree & kb
Forum: User Feedback
Topic: xfree & kb
started by: mutschaedi
Posted by mutschaedi on Feb. 09 2006,12:50
peacei d like to report that i had a lot of fun with your distribution
just two things i gota complain:
1st: keyboard layouts
it would be very nice to have the possibility to change the keyboardlayout when x is running (setxkbmap) because people like me like to type the english or even a dvp (programmers dvorak) but sometimes friends just come arround and want to write mails - this is when the letters at the keyboard have to match those on the system because most of them search EACH key
on the other hand it didnt even work to set lang=de at boot time (y/z where swapped, but ¨ or @ (altgr+q) where unusable) - i had no time to investigate that and typed english - sorry
2nd: x refresh rate
it is still nessesary to set it for the old crts - i know that a lc panel looks fine at 60 hz
xvesa --screen1024x768x16x80 did NOT work, but installing xfree, editing the config and the echo XFrree86>~/.xserverrc (was a acceptable way for 3-4 boots but i dont think that a normal user could find that out.)
maybe something will change in this directions until the next time i explain linux to some newbee
a*men