Re: how to setup default.kmap.gz

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

<g>  Serves me right for installing random debs, eh?

Still, the default keyboard setting ought to correspond with the kbd or
console-tools settings.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:45:17PM -0600, James Sasitorn wrote:
> Well the asdf and aoeu are two scripts from dvorak7min.  Its a typing
> tutor program for dvorak (in unstable). 
> 
> Blurb from package: 
> dvorak7min is a typing tutor to help you learn dvorak.
> Also included are a pair of useful scripts to easily change between qwerty
> and dvorak layouts.
> 
> 
> james
> 
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> > Didn't know about that one.  Just discovered another trick:
> > 
> >     man asdf
> >     man aoeu
> > 
> > ...switch between QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts, in both console
> > and X Windows.
> > 
> > While this is a neat hack, it's a bit annoying to have a command which
> > is simply a common random sequence of keypresses -- I discovered the
> > commands when testing my keyboard configuration having just run
> > kbdconfig and switching to a console window.  Wanting to type something,
> > I did "asdf"...and got a message that I was loading the Dvorak keymap.
> > As root, natch.  Granted it's nice to have a set of commands which uses
> > the same keystroke pattern to munge and de-munge a keyboard, but this is
> > happening a little too silently for my preferences.
> > 
> > Moreover, the standard keymap which is substituted back in is different
> > from the one specified in my console-tools configuration (I switch
> > control and caps-lock).  Poor design -- the tools should be integrated.
> > 
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