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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

A very recent answer to a list question from six months ago about using 
different keyboard layouts in CLI mode.

I hope this will be helpful to our Spanish and German writing list 
members.

I don't follow what is going on here - is this a way to set up each 
console with a different keyboard?

I really ought to learn to use different keyboards, to write emails in 
Russian rather than transliteration, or in Czech with diacritics.  (I 
would have to print out the keyboard first - are the keyboard layouts 
shown graphically somewhere in a standard Slackware package?).


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:48:00 +0300
From: XXXXXXXX
To: keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
Subject: keyboard layout switching

13-Jul-2005

Hi Sindi,

I picked your question from the 'net and as it appears that I was the 
originator of the original posting, it caught my eye... :-)

For the console, you need to do (at least) the following:

-- point the console to the appropriate display tranlation table(s)

-- load the proper font (use your pick from /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts)

-- load the proper keyboard translation map (use your pick from 
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps)


The former can be performed as follows for some flavor of the (monotonic) 
hellenic keyboard and console:

  echo -ne "\033(K\033)K" >/dev/tty
  setfont iso07.16
  loadkeys gr

You may also amplify that, for all consoles, at system start-up (a bit 
more involved).

I was requested to write a description for the use of hellenic polytonic 
keyboard / fonts, so it will be a good place to expand on that, as well. 
If you are interested, I will send you the end result.

Whatever your decision, _please_ remove my e-mail address if you decide to 
post this solution anywhere.

I am curious, though, why wood a good 'netter like you be interested in 
such a low-down capability...

Best regards,

Dimitri Marinakis


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Mon Jan 17 10:38:22 EST 2005

Do you know how to do this for the console keyboard?

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, James Miller wrote:

> I ran across some information recently that may be of help to BL users who
> use various languages and need to switch "on the fly" between keyboard
> layouts. I haven't tried it, but I do not see why it wouldn't work under
> BL, if the program setxkbmap and the relevant keyboard map is on the
> system. Anyway, here's the information:
>
> There are a number of keyboard layouts for linux, however, and an easy
> way to switch keyboards. For example, you can use ctrl/shift to switch
> between the english and hellenic keyboards by entering the following two
> lines in your .profile:
>
> export LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8
> setxkbmap us+el polytonic -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
>
> This will enable UTF characters and set your keyboard to switch between
> the "us" english and hellenic "el" layout groups. You can leave the
> "polytonic" option out (a keyboard layout modifier for hellenic) or you
> can choose an alternate group switch code.
>
> James
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