Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal
--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 4:48 PM
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 07:21:23AM
> EST, Sebastian wrote:
> > Hi Camaleón and thanks for your time
> >
> > I was hoping there would be a way without using root.
> But loadkeys
> > changes the keymap for all users on all virtual
> terminals AFAIK which
> > is what I'm trying to avoid cause I do usually have
> several running
> > sessions under several different usernames (e.g.
> myself messing,
> > myself working, myself doing some more messing, my
> missus, my
> > housemate) at the same time and would like to be able
> to just kinda
> > change the keymap for one session for a while, then
> change it back
> > without affecting anybody else (including myself doing
> maintenance
> > work on another console at the same time). I'd
> be surprised if that's
> > undo-able somehow with Debian.
>
> xmodmap?
>
> This may help:
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004022913081779
>
> CJ
>
How about simply
:~$ setxkbmap dvorak
/tony
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