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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
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| 6 | %general-entities;
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| 7 | %patches-entities;
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| 8 | ]>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" role="wrap">
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| 11 | <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd">
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| 16 | <primary sortas="a-Kbd">Kbd</primary>
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| 17 | </indexterm>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 20 | <title/>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard
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| 23 | utilities.</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <segmentedlist>
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| 26 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 27 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <seglistitem>
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| 30 | <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
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| 31 | <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
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| 32 | </seglistitem>
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| 33 | </segmentedlist>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <segmentedlist>
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| 36 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <seglistitem>
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| 39 | <seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext,
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| 40 | Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Make, and Sed</seg>
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| 41 | </seglistitem>
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| 42 | </segmentedlist>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | </sect2>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 47 | <title>Installation of Kbd</title>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para os="a1">The following patch fixes build issues with GCC 4.x:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <screen os="a2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | </sect2>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content">
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| 68 | <title>Contents of Kbd</title>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <segmentedlist>
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| 71 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <seglistitem>
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| 74 | <seg>chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys, fgconsole, getkeycodes, getunimap,
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| 75 | kbd_mode, kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap, mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable
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| 76 | (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to psfxtable), psfstriptable
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| 77 | (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, resizecons, setfont, setkeycodes,
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| 78 | setleds, setlogcons, setmetamode, setvesablank, showconsolefont,
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| 79 | showkey, unicode_start, and unicode_stop</seg>
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| 80 | </seglistitem>
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| 81 | </segmentedlist>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <variablelist>
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| 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 85 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 86 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <varlistentry id="chvt">
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| 89 | <term><command>chvt</command></term>
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| 90 | <listitem>
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| 91 | <para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
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| 92 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt">
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| 93 | <primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary>
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| 94 | </indexterm>
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| 95 | </listitem>
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| 96 | </varlistentry>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <varlistentry id="deallocvt">
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| 99 | <term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
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| 100 | <listitem>
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| 101 | <para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
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| 102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt">
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| 103 | <primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary>
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| 104 | </indexterm>
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| 105 | </listitem>
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| 106 | </varlistentry>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
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| 109 | <term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
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| 110 | <listitem>
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| 111 | <para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 112 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys">
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| 113 | <primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary>
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| 114 | </indexterm>
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| 115 | </listitem>
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| 116 | </varlistentry>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <varlistentry id="fgconsole">
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| 119 | <term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
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| 120 | <listitem>
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| 121 | <para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
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| 122 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole">
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| 123 | <primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary>
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| 124 | </indexterm>
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| 125 | </listitem>
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| 126 | </varlistentry>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
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| 129 | <term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
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| 130 | <listitem>
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| 131 | <para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
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| 132 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes">
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| 133 | <primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary>
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| 134 | </indexterm>
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| 135 | </listitem>
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| 136 | </varlistentry>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <varlistentry id="getunimap">
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| 139 | <term><command>getunimap</command></term>
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| 140 | <listitem>
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| 141 | <para>Prints the currently used unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
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| 142 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getunimap">
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| 143 | <primary sortas="b-getunimap">getunimap</primary>
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| 144 | </indexterm>
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| 145 | </listitem>
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| 146 | </varlistentry>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
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| 149 | <term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
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| 150 | <listitem>
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| 151 | <para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
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| 152 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode">
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| 153 | <primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary>
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| 154 | </indexterm>
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| 155 | </listitem>
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| 156 | </varlistentry>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <varlistentry id="kbdrate">
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| 159 | <term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
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| 160 | <listitem>
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| 161 | <para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
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| 162 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate">
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| 163 | <primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary>
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| 164 | </indexterm>
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| 165 | </listitem>
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| 166 | </varlistentry>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <varlistentry id="loadkeys">
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| 169 | <term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
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| 170 | <listitem>
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| 171 | <para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 172 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys">
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| 173 | <primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary>
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| 174 | </indexterm>
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| 175 | </listitem>
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| 176 | </varlistentry>
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| 177 |
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| 178 | <varlistentry id="loadunimap">
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| 179 | <term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
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| 180 | <listitem>
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| 181 | <para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
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| 182 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap">
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| 183 | <primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary>
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| 184 | </indexterm>
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| 185 | </listitem>
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| 186 | </varlistentry>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <varlistentry id="mapscrn">
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| 189 | <term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
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| 190 | <listitem>
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| 191 | <para>An obsolete program that used to load a user-defined output
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| 192 | character mapping table into the console driver; this is now done
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| 193 | by <command>setfont</command></para>
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| 194 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn">
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| 195 | <primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary>
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| 196 | </indexterm>
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| 197 | </listitem>
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| 198 | </varlistentry>
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| 199 |
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| 200 | <varlistentry id="openvt">
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| 201 | <term><command>openvt</command></term>
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| 202 | <listitem>
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| 203 | <para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
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| 204 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt">
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| 205 | <primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary>
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| 206 | </indexterm>
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| 207 | </listitem>
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| 208 | </varlistentry>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
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| 211 | <term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
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| 212 | <listitem>
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| 213 | <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 214 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable">
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| 215 | <primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary>
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| 216 | </indexterm>
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| 217 | </listitem>
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| 218 | </varlistentry>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <varlistentry id="psfgettable">
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| 221 | <term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
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| 222 | <listitem>
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| 223 | <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 224 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable">
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| 225 | <primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary>
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| 226 | </indexterm>
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| 227 | </listitem>
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| 228 | </varlistentry>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
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| 231 | <term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
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| 232 | <listitem>
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| 233 | <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 234 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable">
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| 235 | <primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary>
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| 236 | </indexterm>
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| 237 | </listitem>
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| 238 | </varlistentry>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | <varlistentry id="psfxtable">
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| 241 | <term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
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| 242 | <listitem>
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| 243 | <para>Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
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| 244 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable">
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| 245 | <primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary>
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| 246 | </indexterm>
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| 247 | </listitem>
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| 248 | </varlistentry>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <varlistentry id="resizecons">
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| 251 | <term><command>resizecons</command></term>
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| 252 | <listitem>
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| 253 | <para>Changes the kernel idea of the console size</para>
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| 254 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd resizecons">
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| 255 | <primary sortas="b-resizecons">resizecons</primary>
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| 256 | </indexterm>
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| 257 | </listitem>
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| 258 | </varlistentry>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | <varlistentry id="setfont">
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| 261 | <term><command>setfont</command></term>
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| 262 | <listitem>
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| 263 | <para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
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| 264 | Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
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| 265 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont">
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| 266 | <primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary>
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| 267 | </indexterm>
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| 268 | </listitem>
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| 269 | </varlistentry>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | <varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
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| 272 | <term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
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| 273 | <listitem>
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| 274 | <para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
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| 275 | useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
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| 276 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes">
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| 277 | <primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary>
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| 278 | </indexterm>
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| 279 | </listitem>
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| 280 | </varlistentry>
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| 281 |
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| 282 | <varlistentry id="setleds">
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| 283 | <term><command>setleds</command></term>
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| 284 | <listitem>
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| 285 | <para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
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| 286 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds">
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| 287 | <primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary>
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| 288 | </indexterm>
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| 289 | </listitem>
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| 290 | </varlistentry>
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| 291 |
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| 292 | <varlistentry id="setlogcons">
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| 293 | <term><command>setlogcons</command></term>
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| 294 | <listitem>
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| 295 | <para>Sends kernel messages to the console</para>
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| 296 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setlogcons">
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| 297 | <primary sortas="b-setlogcons">setlogcons</primary>
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| 298 | </indexterm>
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| 299 | </listitem>
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| 300 | </varlistentry>
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| 301 |
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| 302 | <varlistentry id="setmetamode">
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| 303 | <term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
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| 304 | <listitem>
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| 305 | <para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
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| 306 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode">
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| 307 | <primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary>
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| 308 | </indexterm>
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| 309 | </listitem>
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| 310 | </varlistentry>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | <varlistentry id="setvesablank">
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| 313 | <term><command>setvesablank</command></term>
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| 314 | <listitem>
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| 315 | <para>Lets the user adjust the built-in hardware screensaver (a blank
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| 316 | screen)</para>
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| 317 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setvesablank">
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| 318 | <primary sortas="b-setvesablank">setvesablank</primary>
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| 319 | </indexterm>
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| 320 | </listitem>
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| 321 | </varlistentry>
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| 322 |
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| 323 | <varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
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| 324 | <term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
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| 325 | <listitem>
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| 326 | <para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
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| 327 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont">
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| 328 | <primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary>
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| 329 | </indexterm>
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| 330 | </listitem>
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| 331 | </varlistentry>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | <varlistentry id="showkey">
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| 334 | <term><command>showkey</command></term>
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| 335 | <listitem>
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| 336 | <para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
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| 337 | pressed on the keyboard</para>
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| 338 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey">
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| 339 | <primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary>
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| 340 | </indexterm>
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| 341 | </listitem>
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| 342 | </varlistentry>
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| 343 |
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| 344 | <varlistentry id="unicode_start">
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| 345 | <term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
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| 346 | <listitem>
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| 347 | <para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Never use it on
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| 348 | LFS, because applications are not configured to support UNICODE.</para>
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| 349 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start">
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| 350 | <primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary>
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| 351 | </indexterm>
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| 352 | </listitem>
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| 353 | </varlistentry>
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| 354 |
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| 355 | <varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
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| 356 | <term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
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| 357 | <listitem>
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| 358 | <para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
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| 359 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop">
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| 360 | <primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary>
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| 361 | </indexterm>
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| 362 | </listitem>
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| 363 | </varlistentry>
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| 364 |
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| 365 | </variablelist>
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| 366 |
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| 367 | </sect2>
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| 368 |
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| 369 | </sect1>
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