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The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO

Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl

v2.7, 16 November 1997


This note contains some information about the Linux keyboard and console, and the use of non-ASCII characters. It describes Linux 2.0.

1. Copyright

2. Useful programs

3. Keyboard generalities

4. Console generalities

5. Resetting your terminal

6. Delete and Backspace

7. The console character sets

8. Console switching

9. Ctrl-Alt-Del and other special key combinations

10. How to get out of raw mode

11. The keyboard LEDs

12. The TERM variable

13. How to make other programs work with non-ASCII chars

14. What precisely does XFree86-2.1 do when it initializes its keymap?

15. Unusual keys and keyboards

16. Examples of use of loadkeys and xmodmap

17. Changing the video mode

18. Changing the keyboard repeat rate

19. Scrolling

20. Screensaving

21. Screen dumps

22. Some properties of the VT100 - application key mode

23. Hardware incompatibility


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