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The following packages contain keyboard or console related programs.
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kbd-1.06.tar.gz contains loadkeys, dumpkeys, showkey,
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setmetamode, setleds, setfont, showconsolefont,
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mapscrn, kbd_mode, kbdrate, loadunimap, chvt,
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resizecons, deallocvt, getkeycodes, setkeycodes.
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It also contains openvt, formerly called open.
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There exists a clone of the kbd package, namely console-tools,
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that contains more or less the same stuff. The latest version,
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console-tools-0.3.3 is roughly up-to-date with kbd-0.99.
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SVGATextMode-1.10 contains SVGATextMode, a program that
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obsoletes resizecons.
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util-linux-2.11 contains setterm.
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sh-utils-1.12 contains stty.
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See also dynamic-vc-1.2.tar.gz and consd-1.3.tgz for
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programs that exploit the `Keyboard Signal' key. Very primitive
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versions are spawn_login or spawn_console found in the kbd package.
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See
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font.tgz
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for a package that handles console fonts.
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Packages like recode and konwert-1.8 allow one to convert
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between different character encodings.
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The X distribution contains xmodmap, xset, kbd_mode.
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(See also X386keybd(1) for the situation under XFree86 1.3,
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and Xserver(1) for the XKEYBOARD extension under X11R6.)
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A handy interface to xmodmap is xkeycaps, see
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http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/.
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termcap-2.0.8.tar.gz contains termcap, an old terminal
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capabilities data base. ncurses-1.9.9e.tar.gz contains the
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termlib data base which obsoletes termcap. (However,
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there are still many programs using termcap.)
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See loadkeys(1), setleds(1) and setmetamode(1) for the codes generated by the
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various keys and the setting of leds when not under X. Under X, see xmodmap(1)
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and xset(1).
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See setfont(8) for loading console fonts. Many people will want to
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load a font like iso01.f16 because the default font is the
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hardware font of the video card, and often is a `Code Page 437' font
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missing accented characters and other Latin-1 symbols.
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See setterm(1) and kbdrate(8) for properties such as foreground and background
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colors, screen blanking and character repeat rate when not under X.
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Under X, see xset(1), also for key click and bell volume.
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The file /etc/termcap defines the escape sequences
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used by many programs addressing the console (or any other terminal).
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See termcap(5).
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A more modern version is found in /usr/lib/terminfo.
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See terminfo(5). Terminfo files are compiled
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by the terminfo compiler /usr/lib/terminfo/tic, see tic(1).
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Their contents can be examined using the program infocmp,
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see infocmp(1).
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The Linux console sequences are documented in console_codes(4).
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The package funkey by Rick van Rein provides support
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for all these new keys modern keyboards have. See
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rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey.
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