From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 19:39:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A73116A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:39:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A0343D53 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:39:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DDpDm-0005hc-00 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:39:22 +0000 Received: from esperance.zetnet.co.uk (bts-0341.dialup.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.49.85]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.13.3/8.13.3/Debian-9) with ESMTP id j2MJdIMk008978 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:39:21 GMT Received: (qmail 1907 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Mar 2005 19:38:42 -0000 From: "Frank Shute" Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:38:42 +0000 To: siraj kutlusan Message-ID: <20050322193842.GA1757@peach.veggie.com> Mail-Followup-To: siraj kutlusan , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20050322095141.GA431@peach.veggie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-PRERELEASE i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd kernel developing X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:39:24 -0000 On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:05:20PM +0200, siraj kutlusan wrote: > > i think you understood me wrong. i was looking for a girl for her > interests not looks. Yeah, that's what we all say ;) I was largely joking though. All FreeBSDers require a laugh now & then. > oh and i have been using FreeBSD for 1.5 years now but i havent been > very serious with it. oh and i would like to reqest Turkish keyboard > support on FreeBSD. As I am forced to use it here. I know other people > have requested it for a while and i dont know why it isnt added > instead of having to config it all. I could config it but what about > the Turkish people that want to use FreeBSD for the first time and > just want the turkish Q keyboard working straight away. Basically with any unix you spend a few days getting it configured which means sorting out your keyboard etc. Unless you buy a unix machine off a vendor and even then you'd have to tweak it. I did my tweaking about 4-5 years ago on this machine. ie. Do it once and forget about it. When you're more familiar with FreeBSD, you'll find it fairly straightforward. When I have to do it again (when I get my next machine), I'll just copy my tweaks over. One tweak for you to map your Windows keys and F5 in the console to something useful: kbdcontrol -f 62 "sudo reboot" kbdcontrol -f 64 "sudo halt -p" kbdcontrol -f 5 "less " and F5 in ~/.Xdefaults: XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \ F5 : string("less ") I suppose you could write a perl script to do all the necessary tweaks sort of automagically when it's called. ie. It sorts out syscons(4) via kbdcontrol(1), edits XF86Config, sets $TERM etc. Something you could have a bash at if you're keen. It's worth learning perl if you haven't already. It's a good language for sysadmin along with shell. -- Frank print "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<---