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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Virtual Consoles (VCs)</A></H2>
<P>Every distribution of Slackware comes with kbd; the package is called
keytbls under Slackware (a4 in 2.3.0 - kbd 0.90). Joel Hoffman has contributed
Hebrew fonts and keymaps from his original codepage.tar.Z file. Look under
/usr/lib/kbd for iso08.* files. It follows ISO 8859-8 and the Hebrew keytables
and maps.
<P>Put the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
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#!/bin/sh
# Put any local setup commands in here
#
INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6]
PATH=/sbin:/etc:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
#
# kbd - Set the the console font and keyboard
# set numlock and set metabit mode on tty1 .. tty8
for tty in $INITTY
do
# setleds -D +num < $tty > /dev/null
setmetamode metabit < $tty > /dev/null
done
# Latin8(Hebrew) keyboard/console
setfont iso08.f16
mapscrn trivial
loadkeys Hebrew
# enable mapping
for tty in $INITTY
do
echo -n -e "\\033(K" >$tty
done
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<P>NOTE: If you are using X Windows be careful with "setleds", it may hang the X
server.
<P>The above setup works fine with the Hebrew version of pico (pine) and
displays correctly ISO 8859-8 Hebrew (X Windows, MS Windows).
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