Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 08:26:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: keyboard country mapping Message-ID: <20040523072600.GA80532@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040522150540.M36804@wonkity.com> References: <1085259338.3513.3.camel@localhost> <20040522150540.M36804@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004, arden wrote:
>
> > I'm in the UK but my install has set up my keyboard as American how can
> > i alter it ?
>
> You can choose a keymap interactively with kbdmap.
>
> Based on 'man rc.conf', adding keymap="uk.cp850" to your rc.conf may do
> what you want. (I'm not sure if that's the right one, though.)
keymap="uk.iso"
is what I use in /etc/rc.conf
Nb. All of the suggestions so far in this thread only deal with the
keyboard map on the console. If you're using X, that has a completely
separate keyboard configuration. From /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
And there are a whole series of applications to do things with X
keyboards, whose names all start with 'xkb' -- probably the most
amusing is 'xkbprint' which will give you a neat postscript file
showing all of the symbols attached to each key according to what
modifier (shift, alt, ctrl, ...) keys you use.
Cheers,
Matthew
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