Re: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration (Swedish with "|")

From	Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration (Swedish with "\|")
Date	2019-07-17 06:00 +0200
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Hi David, which "driver doesn't seem to have a clue"?

//Erik

sorry for top posting

On 17 July 2019 01:22:52 CEST, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sat 11 May 2019 at 10:10:42 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
>> […]
>> That encourages me to ask another stupid question: I'd like to know
>> why the "Keyboard model" has to be set before "Keyboard layout" when
>> walking through the dpkg-reconfigure menues?
>> 
>> If it was the other way around, the first choice, "Keyboard layout",
>> could perhaps make an informed selection from the list of "Keyboard
>> models" that could be relevant at all.
>
>I wasn't aware that dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration had
>any decision-making abilities like that. I think it just turns
>multiword descriptive lists into the pithy descriptions, so that
>you don't have to know that a "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC" keyboard
>becomes "pc105" and a Right Alt key for AltGr becomes
>"lv3:ralt_switch".
>
>> In any case, what you care about as a user is "Keyboard layout", and
>> in most cases when you have to make a series of choices, you start
>> with your known knowns, not your known unknowns.
>
>My experience is that Keyboard Models is critical. Without getting
>that correct, defining CapsLock as my Compose key is futile because
>the driver doesn't seem to have a clue where the CapsLock is.
>(That's for an "Acer laptop" PC.)
>
>Cheers,
>David.

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Re: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration (Swedish with "|") David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-17 01:30 +0200
  Re: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration (Swedish with "|") Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 06:00 +0200
    Re: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration (Swedish with "|") David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-17 16:30 +0200

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