[PLUG] Keymap not being followed on console

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 17:38:27 UTC 2008


# from Rich Shepard
# on Wednesday 15 October 2008:

>   I remap the left control and cap lock keys using ~/.keymap. In
>~/.bash_profile is the line
>
>loadkeys ~/.keymap
>
>   This works just fine on the server/workstation, but not on the
> notebook. I've no idea how to diagnose why it won't work on the
> notebook in console mode. Suggestions needed.

I suggest that perhaps .bash_profile is not executing when you login at 
the console.

Does it load the keymap if you run loadkeys manually?

--Eric
-- 
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it."
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