Re: tty13-24
On Dec 25, 2022, at 12:17 PM, K0LNY_Glenn <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
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> I've only used a terminal, I'm unfamiliar with the benefits of one or more
> consoles over terminal windows.
Many of us prefer the way that speakup reads the terminal. It's not perfect, and I'm sure that with some work interactive shells could be made smarter for accessing information more quickly, and maybe some of us do have something like that working. I'd be interested in that discussion, if we could find an appropriate place to have that discussion, is the blinux list still alive?
--FC
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Carmickle" <frank@carmickle.com>
> To: "Debian Accessibility Team" <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: tty13-24
>
>
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>> On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:42 AM, Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Frank Carmickle wrote:
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>>> Interestingly, my sid system hasn't changed from the old behavior of
>>> using right alt for directly accessing tty13-tty24. My newly installed
>>> bullseye has me using left alt and shift to get there. Anyone know how to
>>> revert to old behavior?
>>
>> You need to put the following in /etc/default/keyboard:
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>> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"
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>> this has not changed since previous releases and I've had to add it there
>> to them too.
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>> You can run
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>> setupcon -k
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> Wow! Thank you.
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> Does anyone know if this made it in to any debian changelog?
>
> Thanks much,
> --FC
>
>>
>> to implement the change.
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>> Interestingly, the left alt key with shift still works after this change.
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>> HTH,
>> geoff.
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