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Davor Babic

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Console Keyboard Scheme Switcher

04.12.2006

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        Switches between us and swedish (or any other)
keyboard-scheme in the console. Default is US.

#!/bin/sh
# Keyboard switcher script
# Written in 2006 by Davor Babic <davorb@gmail.com>
# This software is realeased into public domain

case $1 in
sv)
    echo "Switching to swedish keyboard layout."
    loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/se-latin1.kmap.gz
    ;;
us)
    echo "Switching to US keyboard layout."
    loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
    ;;
default)
    echo "None selected. Loading US..."
    loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
    ;;
esac

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