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Re: Change Keyboard



On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 15:52, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:39:53PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote:
> > Dominic Iadicicco wrote:
> > >Anyone Know how to change the keyboard map?
> > 
> > I guess it is in /etc/environment the C_TYPE which controls this during 
> > startup,
> 
> Not all environment variables come from /etc/environment; most people
> prefer to use their shell initialization files for this.
> 
> > but you should use the localeconf package to get the locales 
> > generated right.
> > 
> > If you mean for X, do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.
> 
> Or you can just use setxkbmap to change it without restarting the X
> server.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

What is the difference between setxkbmap and xmodmap in this? I've
always just gone with xmodmap (and loadkeys on console) to support
international keyboards (I usually use fr_ca at home, and I have clients
dealing with arabic and cyrillic keyboard needs, and xmodmap works fine
there.)
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