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Next Previous Contents The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl v2.8, 25 February 2025 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 5.1 How to tell Unix what character you want to use to delete the last typed character 5.2 How to tell Linux what code to generate when a key is pressed 5.3 How to tell X to interchange Delete and Backspace 5.4 How to tell emacs what to do when it receives a Delete or Backspace 5.5 How to tell emacs to interchange Delete and Backspace 5.6 How to tell kermit to interchange Delete and Backspace 5.7 How to tell xterm about your favourite tty modes 5.8 How to tell xmosaic that the Backspace key generates a DEL 5.9 A better solution for Motif-using programs, like netscape 5.10 What about termcap and terminfo? 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 8.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del (Boot) 8.2 Other combinations 8.3 X Combinations 8.4 Dosemu Combinations 8.5 Composing symbols 8.6 The SysRq key 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. What precisely does XFree86-2.1 do when it initializes its keymap? 14. Unusual keys and keyboards 15. Examples of use of loadkeys and xmodmap 15.1 `I can use only one finger to type with' 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 Next Previous Contents

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