| The maps found here are as contributed. Use at your own risk. |
| (But please tell me if something is seriously wrong.) |
| Mail corrections, improvements and new maps to aeb@cwi.nl. |
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| If the below talks about /usr/lib/kbd, that may well be |
| something like /usr/share/kbd in other distributions. |
| |
| The old setup had a directory /usr/lib/kbd/keytables containing |
| all keymaps. But this is getting messy - there are too many. |
| The present setup has a directory /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps with |
| subdirectories |
| amiga, atari, i386, mac, sun |
| indicating the desired architecture. |
| (I believe alpha uses the i386 keyboard.) |
| The 386 directory is split further into subdirectories |
| qwerty, qwertz, azerty, fgGIod, dvorak |
| indicating the layout of the letters. |
| (Very roughly speaking, qwerty is English, qwertz is German, |
| azerty is French, fgGIod is Turkish, dvorak is international.) |
| Loadkeys will first search /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps, and then its |
| subdirectories, so the default keymap should probably live in |
| /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps. |
| |
| Many keymaps now use the include directive, both for clarity |
| and to save space. One can avoid includes by doing |
| "loadkeys map-with-includes; dumpkeys > map-without-includes". |
| This may be desirable for the default keymap loaded at boot time. |
| |
| I hope that this setup will make it possible for distribution |
| developers to make the keymap-choosing phase of a new installation |
| somewhat more user-friendly. |
| Note that one of the possible user choices should be *not* to |
| load any keymap, and get the compiled-in kernel default. |
| Note that only files *.map are candidate keymaps. |
| |
| Andries |
