%general-entities; ]> Kbd The behaviour of the Backspace and Delete keys is not consistent across the keymaps in the Kbd package. The following patch fixes this issue for i386 keymaps: patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-backspace-patch; After patching, the Backspace key generates the character with code 127, and the Delete key generates a well-known escape sequence. Patch Kbd to fix a bug in setfont that is triggered when compiling with GCC-&gcc-version;: patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch; Prepare Kbd for compilation: ./configure Compile the package: make This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package: make install For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't provide a useful keymap (the stock by keymap assumes the ISO-8859-5 encoding, while everybody uses CP1251 instead). Users of such languages have to download working keymaps separately. Installed programs chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys, fgconsole, getkeycodes, getunimap, kbd_mode, kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap, mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to psfxtable), psfstriptable (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, resizecons, setfont, setkeycodes, setleds, setlogcons, setmetamode, setvesablank, showconsolefont, showkey, unicode_start, and unicode_stop Short Descriptions chvt Changes the foreground virtual terminal chvt deallocvt Deallocates unused virtual terminals deallocvt dumpkeys Dumps the keyboard translation tables dumpkeys fgconsole Prints the number of the active virtual terminal fgconsole getkeycodes Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table getkeycodes getunimap Prints the currently used unicode-to-font mapping table getunimap kbd_mode Reports or sets the keyboard mode kbd_mode kbdrate Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates kbdrate loadkeys Loads the keyboard translation tables loadkeys loadunimap Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table loadunimap mapscrn An obsolete program that used to load a user-defined output character mapping table into the console driver; this is now done by setfont mapscrn openvt Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT) openvt psfaddtable A link to psfxtable psfaddtable psfgettable A link to psfxtable psfgettable psfstriptable A link to psfxtable psfstriptable psfxtable Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts psfxtable resizecons Changes the kernel idea of the console size resizecons setfont Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics Array (VGA) fonts on the console setfont setkeycodes Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard setkeycodes setleds Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) setleds setlogcons Sends kernel messages to the console setlogcons setmetamode Defines the keyboard meta-key handling setmetamode setvesablank Lets the user adjust the built-in hardware screensaver (a blank screen) setvesablank showconsolefont Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font showconsolefont showkey Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys pressed on the keyboard showkey unicode_start Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Don't use this program unless your keymap file is in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. For other encodings, this utility produces incorrect results. unicode_start unicode_stop Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode unicode_stop