KBD(8)                  OpenBSD System Manager's Manual                 KBD(8)

NAME
     kbd - set national keyboard translation

SYNOPSIS
     kbd -l
     kbd [-q] name

DESCRIPTION
     kbd is used to change the keyboard encoding.  The encoding is set to na-
     tional keyboard layout name, and a short message is printed to stdout.

     The execution of kbd normally occurs in the system multi-user initializa-
     tion file /etc/rc using the encoding defined in /etc/kbdtype.

     The options are as follows:

     -l      List all available keyboard encodings.

     -q      Quiet mode.  No message is printed unless an error occurs.

FILES
     /etc/kbdtype     Default national encoding.

OpenBSD 4.7                       May 6, 2009                                1
