On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:16AM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:32:52PM +0000, Sebastian wrote: > > Hello everybody > > > > I'm just getting started learning the dvorak layout using the package > > dvorak7min. So far I have only been able to practice under X using > > 'setxkbdmap dvorak' which works great. > > What I'm interested in if there's an easy way to (temporarily as I'm > > nowhere near fluent yet) load another keymap as an ordinary user in a > > regular terminal session. I have tried the loadkeys command but that > > doesn't work for a ordinary user here. > > I'm running a mixed-release debian with apt-pinning (mainly > > testing). Any suggestions appreciated. > > There are some window managers (e.g. the one of KDE) that support > per-window keyboard mapping. Or rather: with XKB, you have up to 4 > groups, and switching between them is relatively cheap. Thus this > supports switching groups between windows. > > I suppose you can map querty for one groups and dvorak for another. Not > exactly sure how. >
Thanks for all your time and help, greatly appreciated. I think I have been a bit unclear in my wording: I'm looking for something to temporarily set a different keymap in a /console/-session, as in 'text-only'! I have no problems doing this within X - although I only used the 'setxkbmap'-approach. So thanks again for all your suggestions, but I'm looking for a way to switch to the dvorak-layout for the /console/, not for X. And of course - sorry for all the confusion (although some say it's the first step on the long path to enlightenment). Thanks again Cheerio Sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
