Subject: Re: X Keyboard stuff
To: Scott Horton <bighorton@home.com>
From: Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.palo-alto.ca.us>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/21/2001 15:00:02
Seems to me that this is the sort of thing that should be in the FAQ. I
just got through using setxkbmap today to configure my hebrew keyboard
(yay!) and it was no fun. If you run:
setxkbmap -keymap "digital/us(lk201)" it might work.
Let me know if that does the trick,
>
> Well, as I mentioned previously, I've got a DECStation 5000/240, and it's
> running 1.5 very nicely indeed. Playing with this guy has been a blast.
>
> Now for my problem... X ran straightaway, which amazed me, but the keyboard
> settings aren't right. I've spent any amount of time searching the
> port-pmax archive and any other documentation I can find, and I can't find
> any mention of exactly where I tell it that I'm using an LK201 keyboard so
> that the bloody backspace key will work in X. All the references I've been
> able to find talk about XFree86, and reference files that just don't seem to
> exist on the pmax. Keyboard things work mostly just fine in rcons, and
> (heres the weird part), if I open an XTerm, and run 'vi' in the window under
> X, things (mostly) work more normally. But none of the special keys
> (backspace, arrows, etc) work at all... Just "[[[3" and so forth.
>
> Please help a newbie! Where the heck do I put my XKb info? Or is there a
> version of XF86Config hidden under a different name in here somewhere?
>
> Scott Horton
> 111 E. Forest Ave
> Columbia, MO 65203
> bighorton@home.com
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Robbie Stone
Serendipity Simplex