On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Rich Kulawiec wrote:

> One of the things that's stopped me from buying a laptop and putting
> Linux on it is the keyboard.
> 
> To explain: as an old-time Unix person and a vi user, I expect to
> field the control key to the left of the "A" key.  (To give you
> an idea of what sort of fossil I am, I use Control-I to insert tabs.)
> Many PC-type keyboard have the utterly useless CAPS LOCK key there,
> which is beyond annoying.  So I'd like to find out if there are any
> laptops out there which have either a Unix-friendly keyboard, or an
> optional Unix-friendly keyboard....so are there?

I don't find such to be user friendly :), but you could remap the keyboard
layout. xkeycaps will help you in xwindows, but I believe x mapping and ascii
(e.g. terminal) mapping are completely different beasts, so are configured
separately.

There might be a keyboard mini-howto or something.

ciao,

der.hans

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> Rich Kulawiec
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