[KLUG Members] Re: XFree86 and Dvorak

[somercet at core.com]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:41:07PM -0400, MPs was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> loadkeys dvorak 

> xmodmap /usr/share/where-ever/dvorak.xmodmap

/usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz
/usr/share/doc/kbd-1.12-r2/html/dvorak/dvorak.xmodmap

Frankly, neither of these files look good to me. They are not as
complete as the defaults.

> The only problem is that once I load dvorak, I can't switch back to
> other terminals, ctrl+alt+F1,F2,etc doesn't work anymore. 

> Oh, and this was like this under slackware [8.0, and 8.1] and is like
> this now under Gentoo [with a recently re-compiled X]

X.org or XFree86?

Type this:

xmodmap -pke > keyboard.current

and make sure you still have the following mappings.

keycode  67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1
keycode  68 = F2 XF86_Switch_VT_2
keycode  69 = F3 XF86_Switch_VT_3
keycode  70 = F4 XF86_Switch_VT_4
keycode  71 = F5 XF86_Switch_VT_5
keycode  72 = F6 XF86_Switch_VT_6
keycode  73 = F6 XF86_Switch_VT_7

http://surriel.com/ is Rik van Riel's home page with an xmodmap for
Dvorak that looks far better than the ones listed above. I would
recommend you copy the defaults to new files and edit them for Dvorak
layout.

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