[KLUG Members] Re: XFree86 and Dvorak

[MPs]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 somercet at core.com wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:41:07PM -0400, MPs was only escaped
>    alone to tell thee:
> 
> > 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?
> 
Xfree, currently version 4.3.0-r5  as compiled by gentoo

> 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

That is what I am looking for. I just added those lines to the [bad] files 
I have and it works. I will be converting the keyboard.current from the 
command though, it does have a lot more there
 
> 
> 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.
> 

Thanks a lot for the information.
--Miles P