From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] kbd.c From: Fco.J.Ballesteros MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20020402082856.CB18D19988@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:28:54 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7163a774-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 : Just to clarify, I prefer dynamically loadable tables because there are : occasions when, in our Unicode world, it makes sense to switch the : keyboard to another language temporarily. This is a different issue : from setting the default keyboard for regular use, but it would be : preferable to see both issues addressed by a single mechanism. But that does not require dynamiclly loadable tables, does it? If you include let's say us and whatever tables in your kernel by saying 'kbdus' and 'kbdxx' in your config file, and you are allowed to switch later between the two, you're done. What I was missing is that it's inconvenient to write echo kbdus >/dev/consctl when you have certain kbdxx keybards, but what about using function keys to switch between them? (eg. FN switches to Nth map). Is this a general mechanism, or am I missing something?