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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:47:30 +0100
From: Robert Hibberdine <bob.hibberdine@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: [9fans] setting up  a differnet keyboard
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Hi,

I want to setup my new plan9 termnial with a UK keyboard. I found kbmap
but this appears to be an interactive program. Even if you do

            kbmap /sys/lib/kbmap/uk

it still acts in an interactive manner. Is this right?

A qick glance at the code reveals that

            cp  /sys/lib/kbmap/uk   /dev/kbmap      (put into my
lib/profile)

should work too,  and it does.   But is this the 'correct' way to do it?
I just want my keyboard to be the right one when when my terminal
windows start.


TIA

Bob