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The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO

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The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO

Andries Brouwer, `aeb at cwi.nl`

v2.13, 2002-10-12

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

1. Useful programs

2. Keyboard generalities

3. Console generalities

4. Resetting your terminal

4.1 Keyboard hardware reset

5. Delete and Backspace

6. The console character sets

7. Console switching

7.1 Changing the number of Virtual Consoles

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

9. How to get out of raw mode

10. The keyboard LEDs

11. The TERM variable

11.1 Terminfo

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

13. X

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

14. Unusual keys and keyboards

14.1 Funkeys

15. Examples of use of loadkeys and xmodmap

16. Changing the video mode

16.1 Instructions for the use of resizecons

17. Changing the keyboard repeat rate

18. Scrolling

19. Screensaving

20. Screen dumps

21. Some properties of the VT100 - application key mode

22. Hardware incompatibility

23. Copyright

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