IRC CLI and other keyboard formats

David Curtis dcurtis at uniserve.com
Thu Sep 4 10:10:57 UTC 2008


Knapp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use Dvorak keyboard but when I go to the CLI is is in the other
> keyboard format. How can I change the format temporaly(Others use this
> terminal all the time with the guest sign in)?
> 
Sorry, never used a Dvorak keyboard.

> Do you know of a good IRC client for the  CLI?

'Irssi' is nice. 'Finch' is the Ncurses port of the popular Pidgin 
messenger/IRC client.
> 
> Is Elinks the best browser for CLI?
> 
Yup. It does frames.
> How do you turn on the mouse for CLI
> 
sudo apt-get install gpm

> Thanks!
> 
No probs.

> PS CLI = command line interface.
> 





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