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Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard drivers
To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY)
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:33:27 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199604111454.KAA29763@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Apr 11, 96 10:54:10 am
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In reply to Kaleb S. KEITHLEY who wrote:
> 
> > kbdcontrol -l us.dvorak
> > 
> > Its as easy as that...
> > X should inherit this from the console driver too...
> > 
> 
> If kbdcontrol gave us an easy way to tell what the keymap actually is,
> as opposed to a bunch of raw data. I don't want to have to try to parse 
> a keymap to tell what it is.

I don't get the question here...
You load a keyboard map, so you should know what it is :)
If you see it from X and want to know the current map, just look
into the XFree sources, it does get it (I wrote the code years
ago, so I should know :) )

> And, as I said previously, nobody really uses the console, right? :-)

HA, I'll bet ALOT that there is a significant number of our users
that uses the console only !

> X has it's own way to load specific keymaps. I'm not opposed to having
> the X server DTRT based on what the console driver has loaded, e.g. see 
> the X server sources for the Xdec and Xsun servers in R6.1, but we need
> better support from the OS to do it.

It's allready there, see above....

> (BTW, in 2.1.0R:
> 
>   %kbdcontrol -d > /tmp/keymap
>   getting keymap: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> Any thoughts?)

Yeah, you didn't do this from a vty....

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