How to get this symbol

captain chaos · 03-19-2006, 03:02 PM

|
and what's it called and mean please
GB keyboard layout and UK region.
Trying to use dmesg and other commands but can't find it.
Thanx

mdarby · 03-19-2006, 03:12 PM

The "|" character is called a "pipe". It's used to direct the output of one program into another program as it's input.

The command

Code:

dmesg | more

will output system startup messages from "dmesg" and run it through the "more" program which breaks up lines of text into screenfull chunks.

Alien Bob · 03-19-2006, 03:14 PM

Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key will tell you how to access the pipe symbol on a UK keyboard (I don't own one myself so I can not testify it is correct).

Eric

Toods · 03-19-2006, 03:32 PM

Its' the key immediately to the left of the 'Z' key, with the 'shift' pressed.

dcdbutler · 03-19-2006, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Its' the key immediately to the left of the 'Z' key, with the 'shift' pressed.

Depends on the keyboard

My 'pipe' is on da right hand side

captain chaos · 03-19-2006, 03:41 PM

Thanks. Found it, but not on the key that displays it, if that makes sense.
How to change keyboard and regional layout with Fluxbox, I changed it in kde but fluxbox reverted back to us.

dcdbutler · 03-19-2006, 04:15 PM

Hey man, I see you're from Scunthorpe. Although i live in Boston now (US), I'm originally from Grimsby and would just like to to point out to everyone that although the placename "Scunthorpe" may contain a certain vulgarity of sorts, the place itself is as far from vulgarity as anywhere else I can think of and is well worth visiting.

Cheers Capt. Chaos and welcome to Slackware

gbonvehi · 03-19-2006, 07:15 PM

Change it inside /etc/x11/xorg.conf.
My keyboard section with a spanish layout is this one (you should fine one similar in your file):

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

You've to change XkbLayout option

captain chaos · 03-20-2006, 03:09 AM

Thanks for that.

odevans · 03-20-2006, 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dcdbutler

... although the placename "Scunthorpe" may contain a certain vulgarity of sorts, the place itself is as far from vulgarity as anywhere else...

Are you sure about that?

(another Brit expat here)