From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:22:15 -0400 To: bob.hibberdine@ntlworld.com, 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb0fffe2-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Many thanks for this recipe. > For the moment, though, I am going to stick with my > cp /sys/lib/kbmap/uk /dev/kbmap in my profile > > Unless there is a good reason why I shouldn't....? as long as you're happy with it, and don't mind the gotcha, i don't see that it would be a problem. but there are 7 characters i know aren't in your password. and if i got out a uk keyboard, i'd know 7 more. :-) i do add some characters to my keyboard map with my profile, but these are for convience, not to fix broken mappings. i map the otherwise-unused f keys to some common unicode unicode characters. - erik