From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 23 00:26:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B3116A4CE for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 00:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458B443D31 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 00:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i4N7Q70w086256 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 23 May 2004 08:26:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i4N7Q1AV085701; Sun, 23 May 2004 08:26:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 08:26:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20040523072600.GA80532@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Warren Block , arden , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <1085259338.3513.3.camel@localhost> <20040522150540.M36804@wonkity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040522150540.M36804@wonkity.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040504, clamav-milter version 0.70u X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: arden cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: keyboard country mapping X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 07:26:20 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2004, arden wrote: >=20 > > I'm in the UK but my install has set up my keyboard as American how can > > i alter it ? >=20 > You can choose a keymap interactively with kbdmap. >=20 > Based on 'man rc.conf', adding keymap=3D"uk.cp850" to your rc.conf may do > what you want. (I'm not sure if that's the right one, though.) keymap=3D"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 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAsFIIiD657aJF7eIRAl08AKCZ5CyV5PB25zNgcTv6oj2RG6BNgACfT+AW k8NY/jqjJR3dYtJxYkExfO0= =sqK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--