On 2009-01-04 07:15:28 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > my Dell XPS laptop is over 3 years old. I travel with it all the > time.. in.. out of the case, through airport security, rental cars, > hotels... I busted the "V" key last year, replaced the keyboard > myself. I didn't understand the ordering thingie and ended up with a > French keybord. The "\" isn't written on the right key,but I know > it's there, and it has the British pound symbol, not "#" above the > 3.
If this is a QWERTY keyboard, then this is a British keyboard, not a French keyboard. French (AZERTY) keyboards are awful to use when programming or working with the shell, since [ ] { } and \ need the AltGr key. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org