Keyboard Mapping - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

is reserved for X and the tenth console shows kernel messages. More or fewer consoles
can be assigned by modifying the file /etc/inittab.
To switch to a console from X without shutting it down, use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to Ctrl +
Alt + F6 . To return to X, press Alt + F7 .

9.3 Keyboard Mapping

To standardize the keyboard mapping of programs, changes were made to the following
files:
/etc/inputrc
/etc/X11/Xmodmap
/etc/skel/.Xmodmap
/etc/skel/.exrc
/etc/skel/.less
/etc/skel/.lesskey
/etc/csh.cshrc
/etc/termcap
/usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
/usr/share/emacs/VERSION/site-lisp/term/*.el
These changes only affect applications that use terminfo entries or whose configu-
ration files are changed directly (vi, less, etc.). Applications not shipped with the
system should be adapted to these defaults.
Under X, the compose key (multikey) can be accessed using Ctrl + Shift (right). Also
see the corresponding entry in /etc/X11/Xmodmap.
Further settings are possible using the X Keyboard Extension (XKB). This extension
is also used by the desktop environments GNOME (gswitchit) and KDE (kxkb).
TIP: For More Information
Information about XKB is available in /etc/X11/xkb/README and the doc-
uments listed there.
Detailed information about the input of Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) is
available at Mike Fabian's page:
suse-cjk/input.html.
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/
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