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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: German keyboard with pcvt: how?
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 04:20:44 GMT
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In article <3vn5fe$oe8@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>,
Patrick M.Hausen <pmh@pilhuhn.de> wrote:

>Just how do I tell pcvt that I have a keyboard with a German layout?
>I looked at every document and manpage I found, even at the source - 
>either I'm blind ;-) or there is something missing from the "original"
>pcvt in FreeBSD 2.0.5.

From my /etc/rc.local file:

	echo -n 'setting pcvt options...'
	/usr/sbin/kcon -d 0 -m de-102 -r 0
	/usr/sbin/scon -t 360
	echo 'Ok.'

See man kcon and man scon.

The different keyboard layouts reside in

	/usr/share/misc/keycap.pcvt

and you may even design your own one :-)

Martin
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