Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:11:16 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> Cc: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003141508520.75538-100000@svalbard.nominum.com> In-Reply-To: <20000314233933.A3360@student.csd.uu.se>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > Yeah, I do get that, however, it would be more useful if I could just add > > the Norwegian characters to a copy of the us.iso.kbd (perhaps call it > > personal.kbd). So to get a "a ring" I would do a 'ALT-!' and for a "o > > slash", a 'ALT-@', and so on. > > > > Is this possible? > > > > Sure. Just go to /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ , copy us.iso.kbd to > personal.kbd (or whatever you want to call it), modify that file and > use kbdcontrol or modify /etc/rc.conf to use it. And how would I find the correct codes for the characters? (I don't have a Norsk keyboard to refer to, and you can't really tell looking at the norwegian.iso.kbd) > In X-windows you might also wish to take a look at 'xmodmap' which can > be used to modify your keyboard mappings in X. So I would have to change it in both places, or would just changing the .kbd file do it? Thanks - Peter --- Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> Systems Admin. - Nominum, Inc. PGP key available on request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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