From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 10:14:12 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 D5FC116A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:14:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from swip.net (mailfe03.swip.net [212.247.154.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9335343D31 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:14:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xride@x12.dk) X-T2-Posting-ID: lkM/Dn7LTUP9vUt2XCoVCw== Received: from x12.dk ([83.72.97.237] verified) by mailfe03.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.9) with ESMTP id 129181411; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:14:10 +0100 Received: by x12.dk (Postfix, from userid 666) id 1C2FE208A; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:14:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x12.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68D5206C; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:14:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:14:05 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Straarup To: Frank Shute In-Reply-To: <20050322193842.GA1757@peach.veggie.com> Message-ID: <20050323110958.M97576@x12.dk> References: <20050322193842.GA1757@peach.veggie.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: siraj kutlusan Subject: Re: freebsd kernel developing X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:14:13 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Frank Shute wrote: > 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. Hehe, my daughter is a FreeBSD tester. But i wouldn't let her go out with any one over the physical age of 2, since she is turning 2 this summer. For my wife she is just an ordinary FreeBSD user. > > 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. For me i've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R mrtch '98 An i'm still not FreeBSD certified (have commit bit), working at getting the skills though. > > 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. I have resently looked at python it seems to be a pretty decent language. With my style skills it rocks, cause now i read readable code. > > -- > > 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<--- \S=F8ren Straarup Soeren Straarup | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride FreeBSD wannabe | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R 'We wanted to believe. But the tools had been taken away..' Mulder -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCQUFxXTGeGCdlN14RAlzhAKCkDBww7DkfG89oPWNDIWqcEKVSQwCfS0my BnqiBm1fsivKKzNom5ZpvJc=3D =3DoN18 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----