Sebastian wrote at 2010-01-10 10:56 -0600: > Thanks for all your time and help, greatly appreciated. I think I have > been a bit unclear in my wording: I'm looking for something to > temporarily set a different keymap in a /console/-session, as in > 'text-only'! I have no problems doing this within X - although I only > used the 'setxkbmap'-approach. > > So thanks again for all your suggestions, but I'm looking for a way to > switch to the dvorak-layout for the /console/, not for X. And of > course - sorry for all the confusion (although some say it's the first > step on the long path to enlightenment). And also I think you mentioned you only want to change the layout for 1 of the consoles, not all. I have been using the Dvorak layout for a while now and although it was very hard for me to learn a new layout I do not regret it. I use the backspace key far less frequently than I did with the QWERTY layout.
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