changing keyboardmap from command line
 

I am using Fedora12 on desktop.
I tried to change keymap from systm->preferences->keyboard->layout.
This changes my keymap successfully.
I want to perform above activity using command line for my powerpc target. My powerpc target environment do not have KDE,GNOME or any x-windowing support.Can any one help me? which command and which files to be overlooked for this?

Possibly setxkbmap, though that's usually used for language--for example, on a US keyboard, if I go setxkbmap gb I get the British monetary pound sign £ for shift+4. If I then go setxkbmap us it goes back to #.


In most cases, the files would be in /usr/share/X11/xkb but I'm not sure what you need under there. However, the man page indicates that you can use -keycodes or -keymap as an option, and under that xkb directory are both keycodes and keymap and both have Macintosh listed as an option.

hi scottro11,
thanks for reply.

sorry i want to load keybaord layout.
Also I do not have any X server functionalities on my target.

Maybe this is working?
http://www.howtoforge.com/changing-l...-distributions

thanks for reply.
system-config-keybaord not works on my target. It shows command not found.

additionally i tried setup command which is not working on my target. It shows command not found.

Also i tried loadkeys on my target but it loads only keymap for jp106 when i try "loadkeys jp106".
When I connect japanese keyboard, it seems that keyboard layout has not changed(e.g on JIS keyboard we have doublequote(") at 2,but when I press shift+2,it still shows me @ symbol. This shows that my keylayout is still US keyboard layout) My problem is how will i change keyboard layout from command line? Is there anything else I need to do on my target other than "loadkeys"?

Hi all, kindly note that my target environment do not have x windowing system.

Hi,

I suppose you need this or this
help

The keymaps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ you can load one with the "loadkeys" command.

Markus

Thanks Lithos,

My keyboard file located at /etc/sysconfig has below stuff before changing
KEYTABLE="us"
MODEL="pc105+inet"
LAYOUT="us"
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"

First I have loaded japanese keymap as follows
# loadkeys jp106

Secondly I changed only KEYTABLE="jp106" but I have not seen any change in the language.

So Finaly ,I changed it to below
KEYTABLE="jp106"
MODEL="pc105+inet"
LAYOUT="jp106"
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"

I then reboot the system.

While rebooting system asked it's changing the folder names? y/n
I selected y

Now when i open the terminal it's not showing any changes related to Japanese keyboard layout.
What is extra thing i need to do?

you'll need the whole pathMarkus