KBD(8) - System Manager's Manual

KBD(8) - System Manager’s Manual #

KBD(8) - System Manager’s Manual

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.

OpenBSD 7.5 - July 27, 2015