1.\" $OpenBSD: kbd.8,v 1.3 1996/06/30 05:17:52 deraadt Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Juergen Hannken-Illjes 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project 17.\" by Juergen Hannken-Illjes. 18.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 19.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 20.\" 21.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 23.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 24.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 25.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, 26.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 27.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED 28.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, 29.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 30.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 31.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.Dd Feb 1, 1996 34.Dt KBD 8 35.Os OpenBSD 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm kbd 38.Nd "set national keyboard translation" 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm kbd 41.Fl l 42.Nm kbd 43.Op Fl q 44.Ar name 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Nm Kbd 47is used to change the keyboard encoding. 48The execution of 49.Nm kbd 50normally occurs in the system multi-user initialization file 51.Pa /etc/rc 52to set a national keyboard layout. 53.Pp 54If called as 55.Nm kbd 56.Fl l 57all available keyboard encodings are listed. 58.Pp 59If called as 60.Nm kbd 61.Ar name 62the keyboard encoding will be set to 63.Ar name 64and a short message will be printed to stdout. 65If the 66.Fl q 67flag is present 68.Nm kbd 69will be quiet unless an error occurs. 70