Re: konsole
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- Subject: Re: konsole
- From: "Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:56:43 -0700
- Message-id: <20030620015643.GB305@iMacBlue>
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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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- From: Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>
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- From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer <wolfg.pfeiffer@t-online.de>