Re: [OT, sorry] Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-17, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks I'll look into that. Now that you've inadvertently put me onto >> w3m.el (if a lit student can do it...) > > Hehehe...revealing my area of study does actually tend to make > people more receptive to computer-y suggestions, but *less

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-17, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Take a look at the package "console-setup". It allows you to set up the > keyboard for the console in a way that is very similar to what you know > from Xkb. If you work on the console a lot you will probably also > appreciate that consol

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:45:04 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out if I can do without X for my regular > computing needs. Most of what I do is text-based, primarily emacs, > mutt, slrn. However, I find emacs in particular is easier to deal with > in X, as there is bette

[OT, sorry] Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Amy Templeton
Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-17, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, I do know that to get rid of caps lock completely and make it > > into a control key so that it's actually *useful*, you can edit (as > > root, of course) the file /etc/console-tools/remap

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-17, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I do know that to get rid of caps lock completely and make it > into a control key so that it's actually *useful*, you can edit (as > root, of course) the file /etc/console-tools/remap and uncomment > the sed statement found there. >

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Amy Templeton
Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to figure out if I can do without X for my regular > computing needs. Most of what I do is text-based, primarily > emacs, mutt, slrn. However, I find emacs in particular is easier > to deal with in X, as there is better support for function keys. > Stuff