keyboard country mapping

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004, arden wrote:
> 
> > I'm in the UK but my install has set up my keyboard as American how can
> > i alter it ?
> 
> You can choose a keymap interactively with kbdmap.
> 
> Based on 'man rc.conf', adding keymap="uk.cp850" to your rc.conf may do
> what you want.  (I'm not sure if that's the right one, though.)

    keymap="uk.iso"

is what I use in /etc/rc.conf

Nb. All of the suggestions so far in this thread only deal with the
keyboard map on the console.  If you're using X, that has a completely
separate keyboard configuration.  From /etc/X11/XF86Config:

    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier  "Keyboard0"
            Driver      "keyboard"
            Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
            Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
    EndSection

And there are a whole series of applications to do things with X
keyboards, whose names all start with 'xkb' -- probably the most
amusing is 'xkbprint' which will give you a neat postscript file
showing all of the symbols attached to each key according to what
modifier (shift, alt, ctrl, ...) keys you use.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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