Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:32:52PM +, Sebastian wrote: Hello everybody I'm just getting started learning the dvorak layout using the package dvorak7min. So far I have only been able to practice under X using 'setxkbdmap dvorak' which works great. What I'm interested in if there's an

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-10 Thread Sebastian
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:16AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:32:52PM +, Sebastian wrote: Hello everybody I'm just getting started learning the dvorak layout using the package dvorak7min. So far I have only been able to practice under X using 'setxkbdmap

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-10 Thread green
Sebastian wrote at 2010-01-10 10:56 -0600: Thanks for all your time and help, greatly appreciated. I think I have been a bit unclear in my wording: I'm looking for something to temporarily set a different keymap in a /console/-session, as in 'text-only'! I have no problems doing this within X

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-10 Thread Tom H
I was hoping there would be a way without using root. But loadkeys changes the keymap for all users on all virtual terminals AFAIK which is what I'm trying to avoid cause I do usually have several running sessions under several different usernames (e.g. myself messing, myself working, myself

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Sebastian
Hi Camaleón and thanks for your time I was hoping there would be a way without using root. But loadkeys changes the keymap for all users on all virtual terminals AFAIK which is what I'm trying to avoid cause I do usually have several running sessions under several different usernames (e.g. myself

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 07:21:23AM EST, Sebastian wrote: Hi Camaleón and thanks for your time I was hoping there would be a way without using root. But loadkeys changes the keymap for all users on all virtual terminals AFAIK which is what I'm trying to avoid cause I do usually have several

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 4:48 PM On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 07:21:23AM EST, Sebastian wrote: Hi

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 12:29:34PM EST, Anthony Baldwin wrote: --- On Sat, 1/9/10, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: [..] xmodmap? This may help: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004022913081779 CJ How about simply :~$ setxkbmap dvorak Had a feeling

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:32:52 +, Sebastian wrote: I'm just getting started learning the dvorak layout using the package dvorak7min. So far I have only been able to practice under X using 'setxkbdmap dvorak' which works great. What I'm interested in if there's an easy way to (temporarily as

How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-06 Thread Sebastian
Hello everybody I'm just getting started learning the dvorak layout using the package dvorak7min. So far I have only been able to practice under X using 'setxkbdmap dvorak' which works great. What I'm interested in if there's an easy way to (temporarily as I'm nowhere near fluent yet) load