Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:20:05 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: "McClain, Michael (SD-EX)" <MMcClain@gi.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: stty assignment Message-ID: <20000516192005.E233@parish> In-Reply-To: <973597126BDDD11197AA00805FA7EBC90297CDBF@ntas0026.gi.com>; from MMcClain@gi.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:44:51AM -0400 References: <973597126BDDD11197AA00805FA7EBC90297CDBF@ntas0026.gi.com>
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:44:51AM -0400, McClain, Michael (SD-EX) wrote:
> If as you say stty assignments must be one character, then that explains why
> my feeble attempts have failed. I didn't notice limit in the man pages but
> will re-read.
I'm not 100% certain, but it looks that way to me (I once tried
something similar myself, and came to that conclusion).
> Since I'm sure stty is called after the kernal has loaded keymaps, I
> hadn't even considered such a limit. I must admit to being a little
> confused about when and where it's best to configure the keyboard
> beyond choice of keymap. I've read man pages, the Handbook,
> 'Complete FreeBSD', Keyboard Howtos and anything else I can get my
> hands on but have yet to see clearly how to do what I want to do.
>
Are you wanting to do this on the console or in X (xterm or similar)?
> In a similar vein, my reply to a previous message of yours got bounced back
> to me as undeliverable so here's the gist of it.
>
Ah yes, I use the FreeBSD UKUG's mail server and it went down over
Easter, and the sysadmin appeared to be on holiday for a week (we had
2 consecutive Bank Holidays that week)
> > In /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/<your keymap>
> >
> > 092 nscr nscr debug debug nop nop nop nop O
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > If you change the second ``nscr'' to ``pscr'' then Shift-PrScr will switch
> > to the previous vty.
>
> I tried this but when I tried to reload the keymap,I got error unrecognized
> call.
> I'm using FreeBSD 3.4 straight off the CD, yours is newer?
Yes, 4.0-STABLE. I guess it's a new 4.0 feature (you could try
checking the cvs logs for kbdcontrol).
> TTFN, MiKe
>
> PS: FreeBSD kbdcontrol ~= linux loadkey?
Dunno.
> TIA, MiKe
>
> > ----------
> > From: Mark Ovens[SMTP:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org]
> > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:33 PM
> > To: McClain, Michael (SD-EX)
> > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
> > Subject: Re: stty assignment
> >
> > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:23:41PM -0400, McClain, Michael (SD-EX) wrote:
> > > I have a 101 keyboard and though I've read the man pages and tried a
> > > number of things, I can't seem to make an assignment of Right
> > > Control + Left Arrow cursor key to the stty werase function. Any
> > > pointers would be appreciated. TIA, MiKe
> > >
> >
> > I'm not so sure you can. Doesn't werase have to be a single character
> > (or single Ctrl character)? The left arrow key sends the 2-character
> > sequence ESC-O D.
> >
>
>
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