Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
—Racecar backwards is racecar, racecar upside down is expensive— —My wife can type tesseradecades while drinking a cup of tea— On Sun 04 Jul 2021 at 15:38:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 03:34:22PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > > >

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 03:34:22PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me > >> I could find what I wanted at: > >> > >> http://k

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/4/21, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me >> I could find what I wanted at: >> >> http://kbdlayout.info/ > > That's for Windows, isn't it. Yes, but at the end of the

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jul 04, 2021 at 10:25:13AM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > My point about the mapping of unicode → keys depressed² seems to > have been missed. On this keyboard, I can type ø by > . holding AltGr and typing o > . typing CapsLock / o > . typing CapsLock o / Ah, Compose on CapsLock. Gre

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-04 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Jul 2021 at 02:24:20 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me > I could find what I wanted at: > > http://kbdlayout.info/ That's for Windows, isn't it. > and within Debian using `man 5 keyboard` Yes, as it says, this w

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
It occurred to me that my use of the term "mapping" may have been a little confusing. I used it in general and as part of my corpora research I am moving away from UTF-8. That is all I am doing. lbrtchx

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 7/2/21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > you're starting from some MASSIVELY incorrect assumptions, > but up until now, correcting all the background noise was never > important, because you were just poking around out of curiosity. Or so > we thought. I don't understand why "we" think "I was just pok

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 02:24:20AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > From your examples you included I will only need yielded glyphs if > they are commonly used in a language. Now, defining "commonly used" > would be an entirely different, yet valid question. > > I will have to code my way throug

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
David Chartash at the corpora research mailing list pointed out to me I could find what I wanted at: http://kbdlayout.info/ and within Debian using `man 5 keyboard` > There's no such table: it cannot exist. Which unicode number would you > assign to CapsLock, or RightShift. There are several

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 12:46:01 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ ls -l /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz > ls: cannot access '/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz': No such file > or directory > $ > > Or did you mean in the /etc/console-setup of the installation CD/DVD? > ~ No idea. That was

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 12:46:01PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Given the baseline option a user chooses as "language" during > installation, the codes sent by the keyboard should be interpreted. > There should be files with the associations of (unicode) numbers and > keys on a keyboard. I d

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ ls -l /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz ls: cannot access '/etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz': No such file or directory $ Or did you mean in the /etc/console-setup of the installation CD/DVD? ~ $ file /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc /etc/console-setup/compose.KOI8-R.inc: ASCII text

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 01 Jul 2021 at 01:59:41 (-0400), Albretch Mueller wrote: > there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number <-> > gliph for each language. > From where can I get them? I'm not quite sure I can reconcile your subject line and text. For the body text, you could look at a site li

Re: Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-07-01 Thread Will Mengarini
* Albretch Mueller [21-07/01=Th 01:59 -0400]: > there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number > <-> glyph for each language. From where can I get them? Does have what you want? If not, try `locate kmap`.

Debian Linux keyboard mapping files ...

2021-06-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
there should be files mapping (most probably unicode) number <-> gliph for each language. From where can I get them? lbrtchx

Re: Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/02/11 11:22, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:31:16 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/02/11 13:56, Camaleón wrote: What does GDM greeter say about keyboard settings when the user logins? I missed this response when you made it, sorry. I am not sure what you mean by what does

Re: Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:31:16 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 17/02/11 13:56, Camaleón wrote: >> What does GDM greeter say about keyboard settings when the user logins? >> >> > I missed this response when you made it, sorry. > > I am not sure what you mean by what does GDM greeter say, AFAIK it

Re: Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/02/11 13:56, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:55:19 +, Alan Chandler wrote: Recently (since Squeeze release and my decision to change back to unstable) my gnome desktop keyboard default as moved from Gbr to USA (as witnessed by the little icon to the left of time on my top panel

Re: Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:55:19 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Recently (since Squeeze release and my decision to change back to > unstable) my gnome desktop keyboard default as moved from Gbr to USA (as > witnessed by the little icon to the left of time on my top panel). If I > go edit keyboard sett

Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-16 Thread Alan Chandler
Recently (since Squeeze release and my decision to change back to unstable) my gnome desktop keyboard default as moved from Gbr to USA (as witnessed by the little icon to the left of time on my top panel). If I go edit keyboard settings and ensure that United Kingdom is the default layout, and

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf is ignored. Aah.. That explains it. Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got

Re: Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,23.May.09, 13:37:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > Restart hal, at least in theory. > > Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by > means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got some weird results. Yes, that's why I said "in theory". You did restart X after restartin

Re: Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-23 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrei Popescu wrote: > changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf > is ignored. Aah.. That explains it. > Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got some weird results. It is

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,20.May.09, 22:45:23, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > kbd is still on nodeadkeys... > > It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now > something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a > system with evdev, type > > setxkbmap -pri

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-20 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > kbd is still on nodeadkeys... It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a system with evdev, type setxkbmap -print and see if evdev is mentioned. If it is, it seems that at the momen

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
- "Jan Willem Stumpel" a écrit : > > i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... > > You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For > instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard? exactly! and if you ask why: the french layout is completely out of

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello [..] > i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard? > still, dead-keys aren't working > so, what possibilities remain to act

keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello i have a problem on my debian machines lately concerning the keymapping of the keyboard... i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... from the beginning the default setting of no-dead-keys was annoying, but with a leattle tweakiing and configuring i could get rid of that annoying

Kernel 2.6.8 & Keyboard Mapping on an Ultra 5

2005-06-30 Thread Robert Wolfe
Hi folks. Successfully installed the 2.6.8 kernel on my Sun Ultra 5. However, when I go to boot with the new kernel the keyboard mapping is ALL WRONG on my Sun Type 5 keyboard -- the letter keys either type numbers or do not type at all and the number keys when Num Lock is is type letters

Re: Console keyboard mapping

2001-05-17 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:00:41PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Some time ago, during an "apt-get upgrade" in testing, I've lost > my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to > get it back :( > > It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. > > What'

Console keyboard mapping

2001-05-17 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi list ! Some time ago, during an "apt-get upgrade" in testing, I've lost my swiss-french keyboard layout for the console. I am not able to get it back :( It seems that kbdconfig has disappeared in utils/kbd from woody. What's the alternative ? Thanks for your help Dominique

Re: keyboard mapping

1999-12-01 Thread Nathan York
sorry for the grief. i had to do a kbdconfing, rename the file it put in /etc/kbd/ to defualt.map.gz then i had to run keytab-lilo.pl /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz > /boot/kbd.us then i had to add a line in lilo.conf: keytable = /boot/kbd.us so my problem is now fixed craz > some ho

keyboard mapping

1999-12-01 Thread Nathan York
some how during an upgrade to potato my keymap got set to a "azerty" type keyboardthis means it thinks i have a kb with azerty as the first six letters in my upper left hand cornerhow do i go about switching it to a "qwerty" keymap craz

Re: X keyboard mapping

1998-12-15 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 02:26:55PM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > > I would like to switch between two keyboard mappings - us and german - > whenever > I need to. I've written two input files for xmodmap, accordingly. These are > correct. I typed > > xmodmap > > but nothing happend. I c

X keyboard mapping

1998-12-14 Thread Armin Wegner
I would like to switch between two keyboard mappings - us and german - whenever I need to. I've written two input files for xmodmap, accordingly. These are correct. I typed xmodmap but nothing happend. I can remember that this worked some installations before. What could be the fault? Are t

Re: Keyboard Mapping Problem

1997-11-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
> I don't know but try typing 'reset' and remove any keyboard mapping stuff you may have - including .inputrc. /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Keyboard Mapping Problem

1997-11-14 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Hi All, Don't know what made this occur but any help would be great. The last few days anytime I type a z or a Z may machine sends the z plus a line feed. Any Ideas on how to correct this? Is an .inputrc file needed? Thanks, Mike Mike NachlingerApres Ski Club, Inc. 1-888-APRESGO