Can't find the | caracter on my linux box?

[tornad]

How do you get it? I have to mention that i have a french keyboard and i am running rh 6.1.

[ColdPack]

I have no idea what a French keyboard looks like compared to the stinkin' American one but...
It is often above the <ENTER> key. It is when you press <shift>+\ ... it looks like two small vertical lines.
But, the French kb is probably different but look for that if you can.

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[tornad]

Thanks Coldpack for your reply but:
I can see the key but when i do shift +\ key it displays the backslash caracter: \
So how do you configure the keyboard?

[ColdPack]

Originally posted by tornad:
Thanks Coldpack for your reply but:
I can see the key but when i do shift +\ key it displays the backslash caracter: \
So how do you configure the keyboard?

I'm not sure as I am at work right now.
Maybe someone else can respond (before I get home from work in another 9 hours http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif ).


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[7DeadlySins]

loadkeys us.kmap

will load the us keymaps on redhat i believe.. there are quite a few different mappings that come as default, so look for a french one.

oh, you have to be root to issue that command, and if you want to modify the keyboard mapping in X, you'll want to use a program called xmodmap.

hope that all helps.

7DS

[tornad]

Now got the | caracter but lost my accentuated caracters...
round and round http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/confused.gif

[sssadams]

i have french keyboard that I setup as french
canadian and to get te | i use shift+ the key on the left of the 1 key,or ~ as some call it.
`~#| are my normal us,us+shift,ca,ca+shift for that key.