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10.5 Virtual Consoles
Linux is a multiuser and multitasking system. The advantages of these fea-
tures can be appreciated, even on a stand-alone PC system. In text mode,
there are six virtual consoles available. Switch between them using
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F6 . The seventh console is reserved for X. More or fewer consoles
can be assigned by modifying the file /etc/inittab.
To switch to a console from X without shutting it down, use
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F1 to
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F6 .
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F7 then returns to X.
10.6 Keyboard Mapping
To standardize the keyboard mapping of programs, changes were made to
the following files:
/etc/inputrc
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xmodmap
/etc/skel/.Xmodmap
/etc/skel/.exrc
/etc/skel/.less
/etc/skel/.lesskey
/etc/csh.cshrc
/etc/termcap
/usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
/usr/share/emacs/<VERSION>/site-lisp/term/*.el
These changes only affect applications that use terminfo entries or whose
configuration files are changed directly (vi, less, etc.). Other non-SUSE
applications should be adjusted to these defaults.
Under X, the compose key (multikey) can be accessed using
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Shift
(right). Also see the corresponding entry in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
Xmodmap.
Detailed information about the input of Chinese, Japanese, and Ko-
rean (CJK) is available at Mike Fabian’s page: http://www.suse.de/
~mfabian/suse-cjk/input.html.
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