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[b06ca36] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[673b0d8] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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[bdea25ce] | 7 |
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[81fd230] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" role="wrap">
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[bdea25ce] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
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| 10 |
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[e747759] | 11 | <sect1info condition="script">
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| 12 | <productname>kbd</productname>
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| 13 | <productnumber>&kbd-version;</productnumber>
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| 14 | <address>&kbd-url;</address>
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| 15 | </sect1info>
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| 16 |
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[bdea25ce] | 17 | <title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd">
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| 20 | <primary sortas="a-Kbd">Kbd</primary>
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| 21 | </indexterm>
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[5df2845] | 22 |
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[bdea25ce] | 23 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 24 | <title/>
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[403a610] | 25 |
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[15faad9] | 26 | <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files, console fonts, and keyboard
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| 27 | utilities.</para>
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[403a610] | 28 |
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| 29 | <segmentedlist>
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| 30 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 31 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <seglistitem>
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[fb386e0] | 34 | <seg>&kbd-fin-sbu;</seg>
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| 35 | <seg>&kbd-fin-du;</seg>
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[403a610] | 36 | </seglistitem>
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| 37 | </segmentedlist>
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| 38 |
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[bdea25ce] | 39 | </sect2>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 42 | <title>Installation of Kbd</title>
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| 43 |
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[4ecb5ad] | 44 | <para>The behavior of the backspace and delete keys is not consistent
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[bdea25ce] | 45 | across the keymaps in the Kbd package. The following patch fixes this
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| 46 | issue for i386 keymaps:</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 47 |
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[3d13efb] | 48 | <note>
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| 49 | <para>
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| 50 | Don't skip the patch just because it mentions "i386". The keymaps
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| 51 | for the keyboards most common on the market (qwerty or dvorak) are
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| 52 | in "i386" catagory.
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| 53 | </para>
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| 54 | </note>
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| 55 |
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[0445a3d] | 56 | <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-backspace-patch;</userinput></screen>
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[fa21b3d] | 57 |
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[6a156bab] | 58 | <para>After patching, the backspace key generates the character with code 127,
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| 59 | and the delete key generates a well-known escape sequence.</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 60 |
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[68f174b] | 61 | <para>Remove the redundant <command>resizecons</command> program (it requires
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| 62 | the defunct svgalib to provide the video mode files - for normal use
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| 63 | <command>setfont</command> sizes the console appropriately) together with its
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| 64 | manpage.</para>
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| 65 |
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[6a156bab] | 66 | <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/RESIZECONS_PROGS=/s/yes/no/' configure
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[682a13b] | 67 | sed -i 's/resizecons.8 //' docs/man/man8/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
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[68f174b] | 68 |
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[bdea25ce] | 69 | <para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 70 |
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[26c54f9e] | 71 | <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-vlock</userinput></screen>
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[b540268] | 72 |
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| 73 | <variablelist>
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[6a156bab] | 74 | <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
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[efcb393] | 75 |
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[43886b7] | 76 | <varlistentry>
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| 77 | <term><parameter>--disable-vlock</parameter></term>
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| 78 | <listitem>
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[6a156bab] | 79 | <para>This option prevents the vlock utility from being built because it
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[43886b7] | 80 | requires the PAM library, which isn't available in the chroot
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| 81 | environment.</para>
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| 82 | </listitem>
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| 83 | </varlistentry>
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| 84 |
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[b540268] | 85 | </variablelist>
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[73aedd1d] | 86 |
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[bdea25ce] | 87 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 88 |
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[0445a3d] | 89 | <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 90 |
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[8d8c3dc] | 91 | <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
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[0be3d41] | 94 |
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[bdea25ce] | 95 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 96 |
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[0445a3d] | 97 | <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 98 |
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[bdea25ce] | 99 | <note>
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| 100 | <para>For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't
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[b540268] | 101 | provide a useful keymap where the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes
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| 102 | the ISO-8859-5 encoding, and the CP1251 keymap is normally used. Users of
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| 103 | such languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para>
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[bdea25ce] | 104 | </note>
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| 105 |
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[cddcb23] | 106 | <para>If desired, install the documentation:</para>
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| 107 |
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[d6e7cda] | 108 | <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -R -v docs/doc -T /usr/share/doc/kbd-&kbd-version;</userinput></screen>
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[cddcb23] | 109 |
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[bdea25ce] | 110 | </sect2>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content">
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| 113 | <title>Contents of Kbd</title>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <segmentedlist>
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| 116 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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[08712c2] | 117 | <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
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[bdea25ce] | 118 |
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| 119 | <seglistitem>
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[2ca8941] | 120 | <seg>chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys, fgconsole, getkeycodes, kbdinfo,
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[ca101ad] | 121 | kbd_mode, kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap,
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[bdea25ce] | 122 | mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to
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[7027db5] | 123 | psfxtable), psfstriptable (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, <!--resizecons,-->
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[040ecb6] | 124 | setfont, setkeycodes, setleds, setmetamode, setvtrgb,
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[26c54f9e] | 125 | showconsolefont, showkey, unicode_start, and unicode_stop</seg>
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[d672ab7] | 126 | <seg>/usr/share/consolefonts, /usr/share/consoletrans, /usr/share/keymaps,
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[040ecb6] | 127 | /usr/share/doc/kbd-&kbd-version;, and /usr/share/unimaps</seg>
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[bdea25ce] | 128 | </seglistitem>
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| 129 | </segmentedlist>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | <variablelist>
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| 132 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 133 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 134 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 135 |
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| 136 | <varlistentry id="chvt">
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| 137 | <term><command>chvt</command></term>
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| 138 | <listitem>
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| 139 | <para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
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| 140 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt">
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| 141 | <primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary>
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| 142 | </indexterm>
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| 143 | </listitem>
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| 144 | </varlistentry>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <varlistentry id="deallocvt">
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| 147 | <term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
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| 148 | <listitem>
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| 149 | <para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
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| 150 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt">
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| 151 | <primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary>
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| 152 | </indexterm>
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| 153 | </listitem>
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| 154 | </varlistentry>
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| 155 |
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| 156 | <varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
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| 157 | <term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
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| 158 | <listitem>
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| 159 | <para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 160 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys">
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| 161 | <primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary>
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| 162 | </indexterm>
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| 163 | </listitem>
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| 164 | </varlistentry>
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| 165 |
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| 166 | <varlistentry id="fgconsole">
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| 167 | <term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
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| 168 | <listitem>
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| 169 | <para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
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| 170 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole">
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| 171 | <primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary>
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| 172 | </indexterm>
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| 173 | </listitem>
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| 174 | </varlistentry>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
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| 177 | <term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
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| 178 | <listitem>
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| 179 | <para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
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| 180 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes">
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| 181 | <primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary>
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| 182 | </indexterm>
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| 183 | </listitem>
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| 184 | </varlistentry>
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| 185 |
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[ca101ad] | 186 | <varlistentry id="kbdinfo">
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| 187 | <term><command>kbdinfo</command></term>
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| 188 | <listitem>
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| 189 | <para>Obtains information about the status of a console</para>
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| 190 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdinfo">
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| 191 | <primary sortas="b-kbdinfo">kbdinfo</primary>
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| 192 | </indexterm>
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| 193 | </listitem>
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| 194 | </varlistentry>
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| 195 |
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[bdea25ce] | 196 | <varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
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| 197 | <term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
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| 198 | <listitem>
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| 199 | <para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
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| 200 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode">
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| 201 | <primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary>
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| 202 | </indexterm>
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| 203 | </listitem>
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| 204 | </varlistentry>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <varlistentry id="kbdrate">
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| 207 | <term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
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| 208 | <listitem>
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| 209 | <para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
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| 210 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate">
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| 211 | <primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary>
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| 212 | </indexterm>
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| 213 | </listitem>
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| 214 | </varlistentry>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <varlistentry id="loadkeys">
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| 217 | <term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
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| 218 | <listitem>
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| 219 | <para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 220 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys">
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| 221 | <primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary>
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| 222 | </indexterm>
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| 223 | </listitem>
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| 224 | </varlistentry>
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| 225 |
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| 226 | <varlistentry id="loadunimap">
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| 227 | <term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
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| 228 | <listitem>
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| 229 | <para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
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| 230 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap">
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| 231 | <primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary>
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| 232 | </indexterm>
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| 233 | </listitem>
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| 234 | </varlistentry>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <varlistentry id="mapscrn">
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| 237 | <term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
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| 238 | <listitem>
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| 239 | <para>An obsolete program that used to load a user-defined output
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| 240 | character mapping table into the console driver; this is now done
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| 241 | by <command>setfont</command></para>
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| 242 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn">
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| 243 | <primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary>
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| 244 | </indexterm>
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| 245 | </listitem>
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| 246 | </varlistentry>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <varlistentry id="openvt">
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| 249 | <term><command>openvt</command></term>
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| 250 | <listitem>
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| 251 | <para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
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| 252 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt">
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| 253 | <primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary>
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| 254 | </indexterm>
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| 255 | </listitem>
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| 256 | </varlistentry>
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| 257 |
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| 258 | <varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
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| 259 | <term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
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| 260 | <listitem>
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[2ce158f] | 261 | <para>Adds a Unicode character table to a console font</para>
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[bdea25ce] | 262 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable">
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| 263 | <primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary>
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| 264 | </indexterm>
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| 265 | </listitem>
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| 266 | </varlistentry>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <varlistentry id="psfgettable">
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| 269 | <term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
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| 270 | <listitem>
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[2ce158f] | 271 | <para>Extracts the embedded Unicode character table from a console
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| 272 | font</para>
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[bdea25ce] | 273 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable">
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| 274 | <primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary>
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| 275 | </indexterm>
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| 276 | </listitem>
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| 277 | </varlistentry>
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| 278 |
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| 279 | <varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
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| 280 | <term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
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| 281 | <listitem>
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[2ce158f] | 282 | <para>Removes the embedded Unicode character table from a console
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| 283 | font</para>
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[bdea25ce] | 284 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable">
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| 285 | <primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary>
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| 286 | </indexterm>
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| 287 | </listitem>
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| 288 | </varlistentry>
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| 289 |
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| 290 | <varlistentry id="psfxtable">
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| 291 | <term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
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| 292 | <listitem>
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[2ce158f] | 293 | <para>Handles Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
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[bdea25ce] | 294 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable">
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| 295 | <primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary>
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| 296 | </indexterm>
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| 297 | </listitem>
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| 298 | </varlistentry>
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| 299 |
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| 300 | <varlistentry id="setfont">
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| 301 | <term><command>setfont</command></term>
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| 302 | <listitem>
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| 303 | <para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
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| 304 | Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
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| 305 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont">
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| 306 | <primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary>
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| 307 | </indexterm>
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| 308 | </listitem>
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| 309 | </varlistentry>
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| 310 |
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| 311 | <varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
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| 312 | <term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
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| 313 | <listitem>
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| 314 | <para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
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| 315 | useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
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| 316 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes">
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| 317 | <primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary>
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| 318 | </indexterm>
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| 319 | </listitem>
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| 320 | </varlistentry>
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| 321 |
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| 322 | <varlistentry id="setleds">
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| 323 | <term><command>setleds</command></term>
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| 324 | <listitem>
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| 325 | <para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
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| 326 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds">
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| 327 | <primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary>
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| 328 | </indexterm>
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| 329 | </listitem>
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| 330 | </varlistentry>
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| 331 |
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| 332 | <varlistentry id="setmetamode">
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| 333 | <term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
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| 334 | <listitem>
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| 335 | <para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
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| 336 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode">
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| 337 | <primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary>
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| 338 | </indexterm>
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| 339 | </listitem>
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| 340 | </varlistentry>
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| 341 |
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[040ecb6] | 342 | <varlistentry id="setvtrgb">
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| 343 | <term><command>setvtrgb</command></term>
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| 344 | <listitem>
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| 345 | <para>Sets the console color map in all virtual terminals</para>
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| 346 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setvtrgb">
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| 347 | <primary sortas="b-setvtrgb">setvtrgb</primary>
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| 348 | </indexterm>
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| 349 | </listitem>
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| 350 | </varlistentry>
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| 351 |
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[bdea25ce] | 352 | <varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
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| 353 | <term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
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| 354 | <listitem>
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| 355 | <para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
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| 356 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont">
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| 357 | <primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary>
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| 358 | </indexterm>
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| 359 | </listitem>
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| 360 | </varlistentry>
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| 361 |
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| 362 | <varlistentry id="showkey">
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| 363 | <term><command>showkey</command></term>
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| 364 | <listitem>
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| 365 | <para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
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| 366 | pressed on the keyboard</para>
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| 367 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey">
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| 368 | <primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary>
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| 369 | </indexterm>
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| 370 | </listitem>
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| 371 | </varlistentry>
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| 372 |
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| 373 | <varlistentry id="unicode_start">
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| 374 | <term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
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| 375 | <listitem>
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[7bb9fda] | 376 | <para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode [Don't use this
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[bdea25ce] | 377 | program unless your keymap file is in the ISO-8859-1 encoding. For
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[7bb9fda] | 378 | other encodings, this utility produces incorrect results.]</para>
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[bdea25ce] | 379 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start">
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| 380 | <primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary>
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| 381 | </indexterm>
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| 382 | </listitem>
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| 383 | </varlistentry>
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| 384 |
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| 385 | <varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
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| 386 | <term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
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| 387 | <listitem>
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| 388 | <para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
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| 389 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop">
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| 390 | <primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary>
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| 391 | </indexterm>
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| 392 | </listitem>
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| 393 | </varlistentry>
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| 394 |
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| 395 | </variablelist>
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| 396 |
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| 397 | </sect2>
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| 399 | </sect1>
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