Monday, March 24, 2008

Change keyboard for PIP on GT.M environment

I'm using the PIP on GT.M virtual environment available from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pip/
This contains a GT.M installation on Debian hosted with Qemu. Effectively I'm running this virtual machine on a Windows XP laptop. One issue I've had with doing anything productive in this GT.M release, is with the editor, as my keyboard is UK specific and the prepared environment is US. This post relates to changing the environment to use the UK keyboard layout.
Step 1: At the bash or shell command line execute "dpkg-reconfigure console-data"


pip20080115:~# dpkg-reconfigure console-data

This brought up the following form.

Step 2: Use the tab key to move focus to highlight 'OK' and press Enter / Return.
This then displayed the following:

Step 3: Using the arrow keys move to the "Select keymap from arch list".
Use tab key to move focus to "OK" and press Enter / Return.
This then displayed the following:
Step 4: Use the arrow keys to select "qwerty".
Tab to "OK" and press Enter / Return.
This displayed the following:
Step 5: Use the arrow keys to select "British".
Tab to "OK" and press Enter / Return.
This displayed the following:
Step 6: Use the arrow keys to select "Standard".
Tab to "OK" and press Enter / Return.
This displayed the following:

Looking for keymap to install
uk
pip20080115:~#