Package kbd: Information

    Source package: kbd
    Version: 1.15.1-alt1
    Build time:  Oct 9, 2009, 08:15 PM
    Category: Terminals
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    Home page: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kbd/
    License: GPL
    Summary: Tools for managing the Linux console
    Description: 
    This package contains tools for managing the Linux console
(Linux console, virtual terminals on it, keyboard, etc.)--mainly,
what they do is loading console fonts and keyboard maps.

Basic tools for controlling the vitual terminals are in console-vt-tools package.

A set of various fonts and keyboard maps is provided by console-data package.
    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    console-scripts (noarch)
    console-vt-tools (x86_64, i586)
    kbd (x86_64, i586)
    kbd-data (x86_64, i586)
    kbd-docs (x86_64, i586)
    kbdrate (x86_64, i586)
    kbdrate-usermode (noarch)
    Maintainer: Alexey Gladkov
    List of contributors:
    Alexey Gladkov
    Stanislav Ievlev
    qa-robot
    Ivan Zakharyaschev
    ACL:
    @qa_p5
      1. libpam-devel
      2. flex

    Last changed

    Oct. 9, 2009 Alexey Gladkov 0:1.15.1-alt1
    - New release version (1.15.1).
- Add default font (ALT#17171).
- loadkeys: Auto-convert "traditional"/Unicode keysyms.
- loadkeys: Support bidirectional conversion of keysyms.
- loadkeys: Support Unicode compose tables.
- showconsolefont: Print adequate space chars.
- dumpkeys: Use U+... in "compose" lines if KDGKBDIACRUC is available.
- Add support for Brl_dot9 and Brl_dot10.
- Never handle plain ASCII characters as Unicode.
- Enable UNUMBERs in compose definitions.
- Keymaps:
  + bg_pho-utf8 keycode 38 assignment fix.
  + Add keymap for Colemak.
  + Add keymap for German Intel based Macs.
  + Add UK keymap for the Sun Type-6 keyboard.
  + Add French keymap Dvorak.
  + Add Kirghiz keymap.
  + Add Tajik keymap.
    March 22, 2009 Alexey Gladkov 0:1.15-alt1
    - New release version (1.15).
- Fix build warnings.
- Add warning for on U+xxxx keysym specifications >= 0xf000.
- Update 8859-7_to_uni.trans.
- Keymaps:
  + bg_pho-utf8 keycode 38 assignment fix.
  + be-latin1 keycode 7 assignment fix (thx Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski).
- Fonts:
  + iso07u-16.psfu: Update font (thx Lefteris Dimitroulakis).
  + UniCyrExt_8x16.psf, lat1-16.psfu: Add U+2010, U+2012, U+2013, U+2018, 
    U+2019, U+2212 to the embedded character table.
- Use "BuildArch: noarch" for console-scripts and
  kbdrate-usermode (thx Dmitry V. Levin).
- console-scripts/console.{csh,sh}: Do nothing if $DISPLAY is
  set (thx Dmitry V. Levin).
    Oct. 24, 2008 Alexey Gladkov 0:1.14.1.20081023-alt1
    - New release version (1.14.1).
- Print an error message when calls to exec* functions fail (thx Michael Schutte).
- openvt: Document the -f switch (thx Michael Schutte).
- loadkeys: dump binary keymap (thx Michel Stempin).
- Keymaps:
  + Add turkish F (trf) keyboard map.
  + Add qwertz/cz.map keymap.
  + Add Norwegian dvorak keymap.
  + Fix turkish Q (trq) keymap (thx Ozgur Murat Homurlu).
  + Understand the CapsShift modifiers (thx Michael Schutte).
  + ruwin_*: Use qwerty-layout.inc.
- vt_activate_user_map: Allow absolute path in SYSFONTACM variable.
- unicode_{start,stop}: To run loadkeys is allowed only to root.
- unicode_start: Without any arguments utility will only set
  unicode mode.
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