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Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator

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On 13.06.2019 at 09:28, Grant Taylor scribbled:

> On 6/13/19 4:16 AM, Aragorn wrote:
>
> > Because not all countries use a QWERTY keyboard layout, perhaps?  
> 
> I would expect such users to have a keyboard that is their native
> layout and / or using a system wide profile to specify their
> preferred keyboard layout.
> 
> Using such means that things like XTerm (almost all programs) will 
> inherit the users preferred keyboard layout.  As such, I still don't 
> understand the need to alter keys from the users preferred layout to 
> something else.
>
> [...]
>
> I'm sure there are reasons, I just don't know what they are.  It
> could be something as simple as "Because I want to!".

Well — cynical hat on — say that you are in a country that uses a
particular keyboard layout A, and you want to remotely log in to a
compromised machine in a country that natively uses a different
keyboard layout B, but you don't know how to invoke a different
keyboard layout in UNIX, or you are afraid that if you do so, you will
be caught by the legitimate owner of the account you are illegitimately
logging into...

Hey, this is Usenet, and I've seen people ask about the weirdest things
here, some of which were undoubtedly unethical.  Or homework
assignments.  I've even seen a guy asking help on downloading porn,
thereby including explicit links in his posts to the pornographic
images he wanted.  Some people are apparently not familiar with the
concept of embarrassment.

The OP is not visible in my news feed, suggesting that they are posting
through Google Groups, which I am filtering out.  The fact that they
identify with a GMail address — as gleaned from your replies to them —
rather than with a proper name also suggests that this would be the
case.

Fact is that we never know whom or what we're dealing with on Usenet,
and least of all when they are Google Groups users.  And this one
simply smells fishy to me. :|

-- 
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-12 16:00 -0700
  Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-12 17:59 -0600
    Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-06-13 00:09 +0000
      Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-12 17:16 -0700
        Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-06-13 00:26 +0000
        Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-12 20:28 -0600
          Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-12 19:42 -0700
            Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-12 21:32 -0600
              Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-13 01:56 -0700
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 09:22 -0600
              Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-13 12:16 +0200
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 09:28 -0600
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-13 18:07 +0200
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 11:38 -0600
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-06-13 18:57 +0000
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net> - 2019-06-14 11:27 -0400
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-14 13:01 -0600
  Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-06-16 07:57 -0400

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