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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!swrinde!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!news.uni-c.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!dde.dde.dk!berta.dde.dk!news From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dvorak Keyboard & FreeBSD Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:10:22 +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3239411E.26A5@freebsd.org> References: <01bb9f65$a08c8ea0$6aa048a6@maynardm> <515et8$ff9@tufted.puffin.com> Reply-To: sos@freebsd.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ssc-pc.dde.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Chris Jewell wrote: > > Posted and mailed. > > In article <01bb9f65$a08c8ea0$6aa048a6@maynardm>, > W Mark Maynard II <maynardm@ibm.net> wrote: > >I am considering switching to Dvorak but I want to be sure it will work > >with FreeBSD. Does FreeBSD have a Dvorak keymap built-in or is there > >somewhere I can download one? Also, if I buy a Dvorak keyboard will I still > >need a keymap? > > For the text console if you use PCVT, add the following paragraph > to /usr/share/misc/keymap.pcvt: If you use syscons you just specify keymap=us.dvorak in /etc/sysconfig and thats it ! If you use XFree86 as Xserver it will inherit the keyboard layout automagically, nice and easy. Søren