Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-14 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:47:09AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: 3) S30checkfs.sh fails and bails out into a shell (using sulogin). Currently the keyboard mapping is loaded in S05keymaps-lct.sh and I think that's a good thing. Thanks, good point. I'll put this rationale into

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:39:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Probably this should be discussed here and if noone objects changed ASAP, so that any problems get caught quickly. Don't change that. Beginners would be very

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:09:49PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Don't change that. Beginners would be very confused if the keytable is not working as expected. Not everybody can work with a US keyboard table if the need arises. In which cases is the user able to get to the shell before all

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:56:36PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: That's why the includes are assembled into a self-contained keymap which is stored in /etc. Only if you use pre-supplied keymaps. When you use customized ones[1] it's not that easy. Please explain. Why does the

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:39:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Probably this should be discussed here and if noone objects changed ASAP, so that any problems get caught quickly. Don't change that. Beginners would be very confused if the keytable is not working as expected. Not everybody can

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
12.09.2000 pisze Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Don't change that. Beginners would be very confused if the keytable is not working as expected. Not everybody can work with a US keyboard table if the need arises. Debian should try to get more user friendly instead of getting uglier

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Miros/law! On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: 12.09.2000 pisze Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Don't change that. Beginners would be very confused if the keytable is not working as expected. Not everybody can work with a US keyboard table if the need arises.

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:34:49PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: Setting keymap _before_ /usr is mounted is an interesting approach to the system boot schema design, because include statements are in most keymap files (what can result in broken keymap). Keyboard mapping should be

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-12 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
12.09.2000 pisze Torsten Landschoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): That's why the includes are assembled into a self-contained keymap which is stored in /etc. Only if you use pre-supplied keymaps. When you use customized ones[1] it's not that easy. BTW: The correct approach to this would be to have

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-08 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
6.09.2000 pisze Renaud Gurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there something obvious I missed or is it really unfeasible ? I looked at it and... (didn't do that before, because I used my own keymap, which doesn't need to include anything) and yes, setting keymap before mounting /usr is rather not the

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-08 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:19:58PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: 6.09.2000 pisze Renaud Guérin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there something obvious I missed or is it really unfeasible ? I looked at it and... (didn't do that before, because I used my own keymap, which doesn't need to

Getting current keymap

2000-09-06 Thread Renaud Guérin
Hello, I'm currently writing a config file generator for an automated Debian install tool we're developing. My script needs to gather config information from an existing machine to generate an XML file with various config info (among which the current keymap) The problem is that there doesn't