On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:40:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (19/06/03 19:50), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > > > I configured my keyboard for the console, IIRC (I don't have X, not yet > > > .. :) with: > > > > > > dpkg-reconfigure console-data > > > > > Thanks for this Wolfgang. > > You're welcome. > I'm glad if I can be of some help. > > > When I installed woody on one of a pair of > > servers, I somehow selected the wrong keyboard. It wasn't suficiently > > broken to be unuseable, just irritating ;) > > > > I've been meaning to plough through documentation/google to find out how > > to reconfigure but haven't, as yet, got round to it. You've saved me the > > trouble ;) > > The problem is that sometimes descriptions for tools are real lousy. > That's why we don't don't find them when we need them. > console-data, for example: I think I saw the description for this > tool several times in the dselect window when I searched for something to > change the keys here. But nothing in this description was telling me what > I really can do with it. In the end, IIRC, I found a usable explanation > somewhere on Google or so. > > That's why I often say: Coders often are good coders; but some of them > can't talk to humans ... > > If we're lucky, Clive, this will be read by a programmer out there. Or, > even better, by his girl-friend .. :)
Or maybe even a documentation weinie. /me notes dpkg-reconfigure console-data for aclue -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)
