[Sunhelp] How do I change the keyboard layout in x86?

Peter Söderholm PSM at berifors.se
Mon May 24 11:58:09 CDT 1999


Hi Everybody !

When installing Solaris on my laptop I managed to choose the wrong type of
keyboard. Now I cant seem to find
any command or file for changing it to what it should be. I have all the
little peculiar characters that UNIX relies so much on in
all sorts of strange places. The ~ I cant find at all, which means I cant
use tip (~t). On the type I have installed the / (rather useful one) is at
the rightmost lower corner just left to the rightmost shift key. On the type
I need, which is a Swedish/European layout, a _ and - should be on that key,
and the / should be <shift> + 7.


I think my keyboard type is called ISO latin 1 in Linux (On the same HD and
the keyboard is OK).

/*
Im sorry for asking such basic question. Im sure its on the answerbook CD.
However with the speed of Solaris and the applet viewer
the answerbook CD can not be used at all, either on my Sparcstation 2 or
Pentium 133 (which seem to run at about the same speed with the SS2 slightly
faster). It just sits there for 15 minutes or soo and then it scrolls one
single line then another 15 minutes. OK I know I'm whining (and
excaggerating) but Solaris would be so much more brilliant if it was really
fast. (The same goes for Java too. Makes me kind of wonder what sort of
blasting workstations the guys had who wrote this software) 
*/

Thanks for any help
Peter Soderholm





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