NAME

kbd —

set national keyboard translation

SYNOPSIS

kbd

-l

kbd

[-q] name

DESCRIPTION

kbd is used to change the keyboard encoding. The encoding is set to national keyboard layout name, and a short message is printed to stdout.

The execution of kbd normally occurs in the system multi-user initialization file /etc/rc using the encoding defined in /etc/kbdtype.

The options are as follows:

-l

List all available keyboard encodings.

-q

Quiet mode. No message is printed unless an error occurs.

FILES

/etc/kbdtype

Default national encoding.