Re: [MiNT] Language/keyboard selection and problems

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 16:05 -0400, skeezix wrote:
> 	Probably dumb questions but I'll throw them out anyway --
> 
>  	tl;dr -- how do I configure the keyboard mapping to QWERTY in GEM 
> and in MiNT?

By copying the correct keyboard layout file to your MiNT directory (i.e.
where your mint.cnf is) and rename it to keyboard.tbl.

>  		-> I'm woefully out of date, and naive -- is this a 
> function of copying RSC files around, and the app having a French RSC file 
> applied now? XControl.ACC I have on this particular setup, but no RSC 
> files for it (or they're buried.)

These are hardcoded to french...

>  	- Mousing around I run TosWin2.app .. and its menus are in German; 
> hitting Daten -> whatever to run the shell, and bash comes up nicely.

There is an English RSC to TosWin, but maybe not for the current
version.

>  	Problem: Keyboard doesn't seem to work in GEM (but after toswin2 
> is up, the keyboard 'works' at the shell.) So the keyboard is grabbed by 
> Mint?

It doesn't work under TOS GEM because this GEM runs in supervisor mode
"all" the time. This means no task-switching, which again means that the
keyboard doesn't work. Try finding nohog.acc on some ftp-server, this
will probably help. But why not just run XaAES? Works very well on the
Firebee :)

>  	I don't know anything about how GEM/etc/etc determines the locale 
> and language to use .. old old memories.

It's stored in NVRAM on the Falcon, TT and now the Firebee. There is a
CPX for configuring that.

>  	- What about ACCessories .. I've not loaded up a pile to see, but 
> any idea why my particular XControl.ACC is showing in French (ie: 
> different to GEM itself)? Probably an easy fix.

Because the XControl you got with your Firebee is a patched French
version... No way to change language I'm afraid.

Jo Even