> Is there a way to revert the effect of "dumpkeys | loadkeys --unicode"
No, the memory of the earlier keymap is lost. > does one really have to reload the original keymap again Yes. So, in unicode_start: dumpkeys > somewhere in unicode_stop: loadkeys somewhere A distributor can invent a suitable somewhere, perhaps $HOME/.kbd/.keymap_sv or so. There are more problems. The kernel console state is very complicated, and some aspects are write-only (by sending some escape sequence). If you know the state, you can switch to a different state and come back. If you do not know it is not quite possible to save, change, restore. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/