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On 22/10/2015 12:09, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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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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Neither. screen runs in a shell, and the output goes to whatever the |
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shell is using for that. Same as bash, ssh and so on all do - display |
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device agnostic. |
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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 McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |