Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > But worse, the keyboard has gone american: > > Everybody should have a QWERTY and only use 7-bit ASCII. > This would promote international understanding, world peace, > and C programming. :) > > The output from dumpkeys -f is very different in

Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, in the main course of your endeavor i am overwhelmed, i fear. > Note that this bizarre behaviour only happens if X was running (on > VC1) while I was dpkg-reconfiguring on VC2. I had similar problems on a smaller scale when i manipuladed keysyms with xmodmap and assigned meanings to them at

Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > David Wright wrote: > > An important file is /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz > > What I haven't worked out is: what puts this cache file together? > > It's obviously been constructed because near the end it says: > > # The content of this fi

Re: VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > An important file is /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz > What I haven't worked out is: what puts this cache file together? > It's obviously been constructed because near the end it says: > # The content of this file will be appended to the keyboard layout. > fol

VC keyboard configuration

2015-08-19 Thread David Wright
As a result of the threads "How come i wrote a NO-BREAK SPACE in xterm+bash" and "How to disable certain keys", I'm revisiting my own keyboard configuration, starting with the VCs. My jessie laptop's /etc/default/keyboard contains XKBMODEL="latitude" XKBLAYOUT="gb" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="caps:n