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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!enst!ulysse!wayne.enst.fr
- From: laroche@wayne.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Changing Keymap in software
- Keywords: Keymap, dwrite
- Message-ID: <2398@ulysse.enst.fr>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 12:49:22 GMT
- Sender: news@ulysse.enst.fr
- Lines: 20
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- Hi there!
-
- Does anyone know how to software-change the keymap? I know you can use the
- Preference program to switch from US to French and stuff, but I'd like to know
- how to do that from a cshell terminal.
- Using dread/dwrite doesn't help much: if you do "dread -o NeXT1", you get
- NeXT1 Keymap /NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA.keymapping
-
- But if you change it with dwrite, the change will take effect only when you
- login again. My question is, how can you tell whoever is in charge
- (WorkspaceManager?) to switch to the desired keyboard.
- Preference does that pretty well (the change is immediate), so I guess there's
- a way to do it from a terminal.
- Has anyone a clue?
-
- Jean Laroche
-
- P.S. The reason I ask is that we have several NeXT machines, and some of them
- have different keyboards (French, US etc...). It would be cool if the .cshrc or
- the .login could tell which machine it is, and select the appropriate keyboard.
-