NAME

kbd —

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.