Re: konsole

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:40:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
> 
> > On (19/06/03 19:50), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > >
> > > I configured my keyboard for the console, IIRC (I don't have X, not yet
> > > ..  :)  with:
> > >
> > > dpkg-reconfigure console-data
> > >
> > Thanks for this Wolfgang.
> 
> You're welcome.
> I'm glad if I can be of some help.
> 
> > When I installed woody on one of a pair of
> > servers, I somehow selected the wrong keyboard.  It wasn't suficiently
> > broken to be unuseable, just irritating ;)
> >
> > I've been meaning to plough through documentation/google to find out how
> > to reconfigure but haven't, as yet, got round to it.  You've saved me the
> > trouble ;)
> 
> The problem is that sometimes descriptions for tools are real lousy.
> That's why we don't don't find them when we need them.
> 	console-data, for example: I think I saw the description for this
> tool several times in the dselect window when I searched for something to
> change the keys here. But nothing in this description was telling me what
> I really can do with it. In the end, IIRC, I found a usable explanation
> somewhere on Google or so.
> 
> That's why I often say: Coders often are good coders; but some of them
> can't talk to humans ...
> 
> If we're lucky, Clive, this will be read by a programmer out there. Or,
> even better, by his girl-friend .. :)

Or maybe even a documentation weinie.

/me notes dpkg-reconfigure console-data for aclue

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