Re: VC keyboard configuration

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

in the main course of your endeavor i am overwhelmed,
i fear.

> Note that this bizarre behaviour only happens if X was running (on
> VC1) while I was dpkg-reconfiguring on VC2.

I had similar problems on a smaller scale when i
manipuladed keysyms with xmodmap and assigned meanings
to them at the level of the window manager.
There are translations and caches, which after you change
the keyboard environment do not yield the same result or
yield outdated results, repectively.


> Alt-Left and Alt-Right
> (which I use in iceweasel as GoBack and GoForward) now rotate the
> display through the VCs, including X.

I could have used such keys when my intermediate Jessie VM
came up with a Gnome desktop that offers no kind of shell
window. (Meanwhile it's a Sid with no graphics display
and only SSH access.)


> But worse, the keyboard has gone american:

Everybody should have a QWERTY and only use 7-bit ASCII.
This would promote international understanding, world peace,
and C programming.


> The output from   dumpkeys -f   is very different in the two
> keycode 1 = Escape Escape VoidSymbol VoidSymbol VoidSymbol Meta_Escape
> keycode 1 = Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape Escape

You must have deeply confused it.
Where did you get the syntax proposal of
  ctrlr keycode 106 = 'Hello'


> >   udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

> No. I reboot,

Ouch uptime.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas