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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-02-05 13:17:43 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-02-05 13:17:43 +0000
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Indenting chapter 6, part 7
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
+
<sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" role="wrap">
-<title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
+ <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
+
+ <title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd">
+ <primary sortas="a-Kbd">Kbd</primary>
+ </indexterm>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd"><primary sortas="a-Kbd">Kbd</primary></indexterm>
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+ <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard utilities.</para>
-<sect2 role="package"><title/>
-<para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard utilities.</para>
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
-<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>11.8 MB</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>0.1 SBU</seg>
+ <seg>11.8 MB</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils,
-Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-</sect2>
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-<sect2 role="installation">
-<title>Installation of Kbd</title>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext,
+ Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Make, and Sed</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
-<para>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:</para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Kbd</title>
+
+ <para>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:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-backspace-patch;</userinput></screen>
-<para>After patching, the Backspace key generates the character with code 127,
-and the Delete key generates a well-known escape sequence.</para>
+ <para>After patching, the Backspace key generates the character with code 127,
+ and the Delete key generates a well-known escape sequence.</para>
-<para>Patch Kbd to fix a bug in <command>setfont</command> that is triggered
-when compiling with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
+ <para>Patch Kbd to fix a bug in <command>setfont</command> that is triggered
+ when compiling with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
-<para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
+ <para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
-<para>Compile the package:</para>
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
-<para>Install the package:</para>
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
-<note><para>For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't
-provide a useful keymap (the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes the
-ISO-8859-5 encoding, while everybody uses CP1251 instead). Users of such
-languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para></note>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content"><title>Contents of Kbd</title>
-
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>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</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-
-<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
-<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
-<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
-<varlistentry id="chvt">
-<term><command>chvt</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt"><primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="deallocvt">
-<term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt"><primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
-<term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys"><primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="fgconsole">
-<term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole"><primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
-<term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes"><primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="getunimap">
-<term><command>getunimap</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Prints the currently used unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getunimap"><primary sortas="b-getunimap">getunimap</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
-<term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode"><primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="kbdrate">
-<term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate"><primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="loadkeys">
-<term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys"><primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="loadunimap">
-<term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap"><primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="mapscrn">
-<term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>An obsolete program that used to load
-a user-defined output character mapping table into the console driver; this is
-now done by <command>setfont</command></para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn"><primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="openvt">
-<term><command>openvt</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt"><primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
-<term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable"><primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="psfgettable">
-<term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable"><primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
-<term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable"><primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="psfxtable">
-<term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable"><primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="resizecons">
-<term><command>resizecons</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Changes the kernel idea of the console size</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd resizecons"><primary sortas="b-resizecons">resizecons</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="setfont">
-<term><command>setfont</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
-Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont"><primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
-<term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
-useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes"><primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="setleds">
-<term><command>setleds</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds"><primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="setlogcons">
-<term><command>setlogcons</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Sends kernel messages to the console</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setlogcons"><primary sortas="b-setlogcons">setlogcons</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="setmetamode">
-<term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode"><primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="setvesablank">
-<term><command>setvesablank</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Lets the user adjust the built-in hardware screensaver (a blank
-screen)</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setvesablank"><primary sortas="b-setvesablank">setvesablank</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
-<term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont"><primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="showkey">
-<term><command>showkey</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
-pressed on the keyboard</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey"><primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="unicode_start">
-<term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>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.</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start"><primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
-<term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop"><primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
-
-</sect2>
+ <note>
+ <para>For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't
+ provide a useful keymap (the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes the
+ ISO-8859-5 encoding, while everybody uses CP1251 instead). Users of such
+ languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Kbd</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>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</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="chvt">
+ <term><command>chvt</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt">
+ <primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="deallocvt">
+ <term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt">
+ <primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
+ <term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys">
+ <primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="fgconsole">
+ <term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole">
+ <primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
+ <term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes">
+ <primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="getunimap">
+ <term><command>getunimap</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Prints the currently used unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getunimap">
+ <primary sortas="b-getunimap">getunimap</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
+ <term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode">
+ <primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="kbdrate">
+ <term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate">
+ <primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="loadkeys">
+ <term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys">
+ <primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="loadunimap">
+ <term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap">
+ <primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="mapscrn">
+ <term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>An obsolete program that used to load a user-defined output
+ character mapping table into the console driver; this is now done
+ by <command>setfont</command></para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn">
+ <primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="openvt">
+ <term><command>openvt</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt">
+ <primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
+ <term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable">
+ <primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="psfgettable">
+ <term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable">
+ <primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
+ <term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable">
+ <primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="psfxtable">
+ <term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable">
+ <primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="resizecons">
+ <term><command>resizecons</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Changes the kernel idea of the console size</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd resizecons">
+ <primary sortas="b-resizecons">resizecons</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="setfont">
+ <term><command>setfont</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
+ Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont">
+ <primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
+ <term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
+ useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes">
+ <primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="setleds">
+ <term><command>setleds</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds">
+ <primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="setlogcons">
+ <term><command>setlogcons</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Sends kernel messages to the console</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setlogcons">
+ <primary sortas="b-setlogcons">setlogcons</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="setmetamode">
+ <term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode">
+ <primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="setvesablank">
+ <term><command>setvesablank</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Lets the user adjust the built-in hardware screensaver (a blank
+ screen)</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setvesablank">
+ <primary sortas="b-setvesablank">setvesablank</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
+ <term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont">
+ <primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="showkey">
+ <term><command>showkey</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
+ pressed on the keyboard</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey">
+ <primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="unicode_start">
+ <term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>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.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start">
+ <primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
+ <term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop">
+ <primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
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