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