[Herefordshire] Buried Treasure! & Roger's Backslash

[Roger Irwin]

Thanks for that John, I will give it a try & see if I can B***R up my
registry !
Let you know later.

Roger.

John Hedges wrote:
>>>>I am looking for someone who can tell / show me how to obtain the
>>>>BACKSLASH on an IBM 560x Thinkpad laptop. I bought an old banger and now
>>>>cannot program the thing !!!
>>>>note. I believe the keyboard is an American one?  I have written to IBM
>>>>but not had a reply.
> 
> 
>>>I've a 560x which came with sticky labels on some of the keys for cheap
>>>locale conversion. The backslash and vertical bar key is to the right of
>>>the left shift key. Unfortunately it doesn't boot anymore so I can't
>>>confirm whether they work but Linux was installed and I don't remember
>>>them not working. If those keys are no good have a look at 'man 5
>>>locale' to see about changing your keyboard mapping.
> 
> 
>>I am all for a cheap local conversion, but being a compleat klutz and a 
>>newby to boot, would you spell out in words of one syllable wot 'man 5 
>>locale' means as it sounds a distinct possibility. unless of course I 
>>have compleatly missed the joke, in which case I bow my head down in shame
>>PS.  I do not have the backslash in your position, but over on the 
>>extream right side, between the backspace and enter.  This definatly 
>>does not show when in DOS.
> 
> 
> Very sorry, locale was a complete red herring. However typing 'man 5 locale'
> will, at least on my system, give the manual page for the locale file
> format. Type 'man man' at the command prompt to learn more about man
> pages. man pages are very useful indeed.
> 
> Perhaps what you want is the loadkeys command. (See man loadkeys). This
> works for console mode (ie non windowed). To load the us keymap (most
> likely for your 560x) try:
> 
> $ loadkeys us
> 
> If you are using X windows then you probably need to edit the relevant
> section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 - 'man XF86Config-4' gives plenty of
> information. My XF86Config-4 has the following section:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>     Driver      "keyboard"
>     Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>     Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
> EndSection
> 
> You might need to substitute 'gb' with 'us'. If you hunt around you will
> probably find a configuration tool for your X windows or window manager,
> Gnome, KDE etc., but a simple text editor should do the trick.
> 
> John
> 
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