Re: Ho switch foreign keyboard?

[Tom Marshall <tmarshall@real.com>]

I put this in my .bashrc ...

  function aoeu() { if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then setxkbmap -layout us; else loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us-latin1.kmap.gz; fi; }
  function asdf() { if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then setxkbmap -layout dvorak; else loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.kmap.gz; fi; }

Substitute dvorak for whatever your preferred "other" keymap.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:17:17AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me!
> 
> > Try 'setxkbmap'.
> 
> I looked it up and itr seems to deal with X11 only? That correct? I can
> switch the X keyboard easily. Linux also botts initially in English.
> It's when the boot is finished that the command prompt keyboard ia
> French. That's what needs changing? Wil xkbsel do that?
> 
> I looked in my files and found a reference to kbdconfig? Of any use?
> 
> Jonathan