From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 15:11:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from svalbard.nominum.com (svalbard.nominum.com [204.152.187.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE8937B809 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:11:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Peter.Losher@nominum.com) Received: by svalbard.nominum.com (Postfix, from userid 10188) id 38B6F3DDB; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svalbard.nominum.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1849E3DAF; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:11:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:11:16 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Losher To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Peter Losher , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... In-Reply-To: <20000314233933.A3360@student.csd.uu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > Yeah, I do get that, however, it would be more useful if I could just add > > the Norwegian characters to a copy of the us.iso.kbd (perhaps call it > > personal.kbd). So to get a "a ring" I would do a 'ALT-!' and for a "o > > slash", a 'ALT-@', and so on. > > > > Is this possible? > > > > Sure. Just go to /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ , copy us.iso.kbd to > personal.kbd (or whatever you want to call it), modify that file and > use kbdcontrol or modify /etc/rc.conf to use it. And how would I find the correct codes for the characters? (I don't have a Norsk keyboard to refer to, and you can't really tell looking at the norwegian.iso.kbd) > In X-windows you might also wish to take a look at 'xmodmap' which can > be used to modify your keyboard mappings in X. So I would have to change it in both places, or would just changing the .kbd file do it? Thanks - Peter --- Peter Losher Systems Admin. - Nominum, Inc. PGP key available on request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message