freebsd/usr.sbin/kbdmap/kbdmap.1

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.Dd March 25, 1995
.Dt KBDMAP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm kbdmap ,
.Nm vidfont
.Nd front end for syscons
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl K
.Op Fl V
.Op Fl d | Fl default
.Op Fl h | Fl help
.Op Fl l | Fl lang Ar language
.Op Fl p | Fl print
.Op Fl r | Fl restore
.Op Fl s | Fl show
.Op Fl v | Fl verbose
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Kbdmap
allows easy setting of available keymaps.
The
.Nm vidfont
command allows the setting of fonts.
Both examine a database for the keymaps and fonts.
Descriptions are in English by default, but may also be
in other languages.
These programs are interactive and expect to run
in a terminal to get required input (e.g., a keymap selection)
from the user.
.Pp
It is strongly recommended to not choose
.Tn MSDOS
codepage keymaps
or fonts.
Use the
.Tn ISO
standard version if available!
.Tn X11
does not
support
.Tn MSDOS
codepage.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl K
Run as command
.Nm .
.It Fl V
Run as command
.Nm vidfont .
.It Fl d , Fl default
Use default language.
Ignore
.Ev LANG
environment variable.
.It Fl h , Fl help
Print options and exit.
.It Fl l , Fl lang Ar language
Use
.Ar language
for description and menu
.It Fl p , Fl print
Print description  of available keymaps or fonts
to stdout and exit.
.It Fl r , Fl restore
Load default font from
.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
.It Fl s , Fl show
Show currently supported languages and exit.
.It Fl v , Fl verbose
More warnings.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width LANG -compact
.It Ev LANG
preferred language
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/INDEX.keymaps -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/INDEX.keymaps
database for keymaps
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts/INDEX.fonts
database for fonts
.It Pa /etc/rc.conf
default font
.It Pa /usr/X11/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias
describe common
.Ev LANG
values
.El
.Sh BUGS
.\" .Nm kbdmap/vidfont
.\" does not know which font is in use. E.g. if the current font
.\" is iso-8859-1 and you chose lang 'ru' (for Russian)
.\" you get funny latin1 characters and not russkij shrift.
.\"
.Nm
and
.Nm vidfont
work only on a (virtual) console and not with
.Tn X11 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr dialog 1 ,
.Xr kbdcontrol 1 ,
.Xr vidcontrol 1 ,
.Xr kbdmap 5 ,
.Xr rc.conf 5
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
and
.Nm vidfont
commands appeared in
.Fx 2.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Wolfram Schneider
.Aq wosch@FreeBSD.org ,
Berlin.