The Hebrew HOWTO: Virtual Consoles (VCs)

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## 3. Virtual Consoles (VCs)

Every distribution of Slackware comes with kbd; the package is called keytbls under Slackware (a4 in 2.3.0 - kbd 0.90). Joel Hoffman has contributed Hebrew fonts and keymaps from his original codepage.tar.Z file. Look under /usr/lib/kbd for iso08.* files. It follows ISO 8859-8 and the Hebrew keytables and maps.

Put the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

> `

>     -----
>     #!/bin/sh
>     #       Put any local setup commands in here
>     #
>     INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6]
>     PATH=/sbin:/etc:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
>     #
>     #       kbd - Set the the console font and keyboard
>     #       set numlock and set metabit mode on tty1 .. tty8
>     for tty in $INITTY
>     do
>     #       setleds -D +num < $tty > /dev/null
>             setmetamode metabit < $tty > /dev/null
>     done
>     #       Latin8(Hebrew) keyboard/console
>     setfont iso08.f16
>     mapscrn trivial
>     loadkeys Hebrew
>     #       enable mapping
>     for tty in $INITTY
>     do
>             echo -n -e "\\033(K" >$tty
>     done
>     -----

> `

NOTE: If you are using X Windows be careful with "setleds", it may hang the X server.

The above setup works fine with the Hebrew version of pico (pine) and displays correctly ISO 8859-8 Hebrew (X Windows, MS Windows).

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