Re: keymappings screwed
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 12:59:50AM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:45 PM
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:01:10PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> > > How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US keyboard during
> > > install of potatoe but various keys are in different places.
> >
> > One of the more common alternate mappings is the "awertz" keymapping --
> > it's used somewhere in Europe, IIRC. One way to figure out what's where
> > is to typ out the keyboard, eg:
> >
> > qwert yuiop
> > asdfg hjkl;'
> > zxcvb nm,./
> >
> > ...and see what ends up where.
>
> I didn't explain very well. I want to have US QWERTY. How do I make it that
> way?
loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
You might also want to make this the same as
/usr/share/keymaps/default.kmap.gz, and have the appropriate file(s)
with the appropriate name(s) in /etc/kbd/ or /etc/console-tools point to
this.
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