Re: [newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:42, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:11:22PM +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > I did some pre-hunting;) > > > > There's a file "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" that gets read by > > "/etc/init.d/keytable" and sets the keytable. > > This does need to be done

Re: [newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-20 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:11:22PM +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > I did some pre-hunting;) > > There's a file "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" that gets read by > "/etc/init.d/keytable" and sets the keytable. > This does need to be done in su/root status, though! > > So make a bash script (which you lin

Re: [newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 October 2003 23:18, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:11:22PM +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > I did some pre-hunting;) > > > > There's a file "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" that gets read by > > "/etc/init.d/keytable" and sets the keytable. > > This does need to be done

Re: [newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-20 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:11:22PM +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > I did some pre-hunting;) > > There's a file "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" that gets read by > "/etc/init.d/keytable" and sets the keytable. > This does need to be done in su/root status, though! > > So make a bash script (which you lin

Re: [newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 October 2003 20:07, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:29:43PM +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > Ahh, that's something I've never tried i.e. used. > > I know there's a terminal command: "setxkeymap es" to remap your keyboard > > on other WM's than kde. > > One can also

Re: [newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-20 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:29:43PM +0200, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > Ahh, that's something I've never tried i.e. used. > I know there's a terminal command: "setxkeymap es" to remap your keyboard on > other WM's than kde. > One can also "alias" to a shorter keystroke" or map it to a key on the > keyb

Re: [newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 October 2003 21:18, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: > Hi there: > > Experimenting with VMWare for Windows and running Mandrake as the guest > OS my nvidia driver was wiped out, so I am now forced to work within the > CLI, at least until 9.2 is freely available for downloading. > > Is there a

[newbie] Changing keyboard layout within the CLI

2003-10-19 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
Hi there: Experimenting with VMWare for Windows and running Mandrake as the guest OS my nvidia driver was wiped out, so I am now forced to work within the CLI, at least until 9.2 is freely available for downloading. Is there any way to change the keyboard layout, let's say from us-english to span