The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO
Andries Brouwer,
aeb@cwi.nl
v2.8, 25 February 1998
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
5.
Delete and Backspace
6.
The console character sets
7.
Console switching
8.
Ctrl-Alt-Del and other special key combinations
9.
How to get out of raw mode
10.
The keyboard LEDs
11.
The TERM variable
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
16.
Changing the video mode
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