From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 15:27:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B1716A400 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:27:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F71413C4B9 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:27:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l19FQjuN032513 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:26:51 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l19FQRl8003534; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:26:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l19FQQek003533; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:26:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:26:25 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Peter Message-ID: <20070209152625.GA3512@kobe.laptop> References: <200702061729.09543.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <200702081857.29824.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <20070209022422.GC11035@kobe.laptop> <200702090053.52505.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200702090053.52505.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.487, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.71, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, apatewna@yahoo.gr Subject: Re: toggle between english and french (how?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:27:25 -0000 On 2007-02-09 00:53, Peter wrote: >Le Jeudi 8 F??vrier 2007 21:24, Giorgos Keramidas a ??crit : >>On 2007-02-08 18:57, Peter wrote: >>>Le Jeudi 8 F??vrier 2007 16:32, Apatewna a ??crit : >>>>O/H Peter Ýãñáøå: >>>>> Darn. Now I see that these commands cannot be used via an >>>>> xterm (remotely via SSH). Any ideas? >>>> >>>> I always change the locale settings in ~/.login_conf >>>> For example for the greek language I use : >>>> >>>> me:\ >>>> >>>> :charset=iso-8859-7:\ >>>> :lang=el_GR.UTF-8: >>> >>> I guess I'm achieving the same thing via ~/.profile. I just need a >>> way to change keyboard layouts remotely. >> >> Do you *really* have to? I'm setting an X11 keyboard layout on my >> FreeBSD laptop locally, and it works fine for remote servers which >> I access through ssh too... > > The French keyboard is significantly different. I suppose I could have > a French keyboard by default but it would be quite annoying to work on. > Is that what you're proposing? Not really. I'm just trying to understand why you have to change the *remote* keyboard map. The local keyboard map is what really matters, and this should work fine with the remote shell enrivonment for any locale/language.