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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:59:11 +0200
From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard
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IIRC, putting kbmap=uk
in plan9.ini should work.


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Robert Hibberdine
<bob.hibberdine@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>