Changing Keymap in software

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From: Jean Laroche
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:49

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Hi there!

Does anyone know how to software-change the keymap? I know you can use the  
Preference program to switch from US to French and stuff, but I'd like to know  
how to do that from a cshell terminal.
Using dread/dwrite doesn't help much: if you do "dread -o NeXT1", you get
NeXT1 Keymap /NextLibrary/Keyboards/USA.keymapping

But if you change it with dwrite, the change will take effect only when you  
login again. My question is, how can you tell whoever is in charge  
(WorkspaceManager?) to switch to the desired keyboard.
Preference does that pretty well (the change is immediate), so I guess there's  
a way to do it from a terminal.
Has anyone a clue?

Jean Laroche

P.S. The reason I ask is that we have several NeXT machines, and some of them  
have different keyboards (French, US etc...). It would be cool if the .cshrc or  
the .login could tell which machine it is, and select the appropriate keyboard.

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From: laroche@wayne.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
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Subject: Changing Keymap in software
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