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Hello, Marc. |
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 October 2015 15:51:43 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> >The two keyboard layouts I use in XFCE are both fine and dandy, but they |
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> >are incomplete. In particular, I want the key combination |
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> ><Ctrl><Alt><shift><F1> to take me to tty13 in the same way that |
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> ><Ctrl><Alt><F1> takes me to tty1. |
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> >I've been searching for _hours_ trying to find out how to do this. I |
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> >cannot find the keyboard layouts anywhere under /usr/share, where one |
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> >might expect them. I can't find any relevant programs to manipulate |
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> >these data files with, even if I could find them. |
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> >Would somebody help me please. Where are the X keyboard layouts stored, |
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> >and what program to I need to enhance them? |
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> >TIA! |
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> I was curious, so I looked a bit myself, and found this: |
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> % ag ctrl-alt-f /usr/share/doc |
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> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-7.html |
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> 21:<P>By default, console switching is done using Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Fn. |
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> 22:Under <CODE>X</CODE> (or recent versions of <CODE>dosemu</CODE>), only |
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> Ctrl-Alt-Fn works. |
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> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-8.html |
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> 54:Console_n Alt-Fn and Ctrl-Alt-Fn (1 <= n <= 12) |
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> 82:Ctrl-Alt-Fn Switch to VT n |
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> 115:Ctrl-Alt-Fn Switch to VT n (from version 0.50; earlier Alt-Fn) |
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> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-13.html |
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> 28:While it is running one can use Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch to VTn. |
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> /usr/share/doc/kbd-1.15.5-r1/html/kbd.FAQ-9.html |
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> 41:However, Ctrl-Alt-Fn will work and you can go to another VT. |
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> /usr/share/doc/libsdl-1.2.15-r9/html/docs.html |
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> 631: The framebuffer console now uses CTRL-ALT-FN to switch virtual |
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> terminals, to avoid collisions with application key bindings. |
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> (Online here: http://kbd-project.org/www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/) |
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Yes, I've got that file. It only really deals with the console |
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keyboard, though. |
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> (For those who haven't heard of it: ag is from sys-apps/the_silver_searcher.) |
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> From a cursory look, I couldn't find anything specific, other than that |
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> apparently AltGr+Fn is supposed to give you console n+12 (though apparently |
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> not from within X), but it didn't work for me, and I'm not in the mood to find |
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> out why. Also, that FAQ looks... dated. However, maybe it will help lead you |
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> to a solution? |
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I think I'm going to have to exercise my meagre search engine skills. |
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> Also, while I'm sure you've got a good reason for doing this, I'm really |
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> curious: why not use screen or tmux instead? Especially if you're dealing |
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> with more than twelve terminals. |
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I've never really considered screen (or tmux). Screen looks like a way |
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of "windowising" a tty, amongst other things, which isn't what I want. |
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In fact, reading the Wikipedia article, I'm not even clear whether |
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screen runs on a virtual terminal or within X. |
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No, what I really want is a way to go from X (XFCE for me) directly to |
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any virtual terminal. At the moment, if I want to go to, say, tty14, |
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I've first got to go to a lower numbered tty, and then to tty14. It's |
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one of these little annoyances which is scarcely worth bothering about, |
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but it _is_ an annoyance. |
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I'll continue searching. |
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Thanks for the post! |
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> HTH |
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> -- |
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> Marc Joliet |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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