This question was asked on the Linux Mint Matrix Support recently, I helped by looking up what was needed, and posting this as a reply, As this is also really useful and worth sharing more widely too.

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I am on the Devon and Cornwall Linux user group mailing list and also their matrix channel as zleap, it is better to ask there, that way others can answer too.

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Mastodon can be controlled using the keyboard

Key(s)	Function
r	to reply
m	to mention author
p	to open author's profile
f	to favourite
b	to boost
enter, o	to open toot
e	to open media
x	to show/hide text behind CW
h	to show/hide media
up, k	to move up in the list
down, j	to move down in the list
1-9	to focus a toot in one of the columns
n	to focus the compose textarea
alt+n	to start a brand new toot
alt+x	to show/hide CW field
backspace	to navigate back
s	to focus search
esc	to un-focus compose textarea/search
g+h	to open home timeline
g+n	to open notifications column
g+l	to open local timeline
g+t	to open federated timeline
g+d	to open direct messages column
g+s	to open “get started” column
g+f	to open favourites list
g+p	to open pinned toots list
g+u	to open your profile
g+b	to open blocked users list
g+m	to open muted users list
g+r	to open follow requests list
?	to display this legend

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Following on from my previous post which discussed changing the X11 keyboard layout. I had to also change the console layout.

This can be undertaken through editing the appropriate configuration files or with a tool called bsdconfig which needs to be run as root.

The online man page can be found here

This is a menu driven / text based interface. I can't, as yet provide a screen shot, but the man page is comprehensive enough so a screenshot isn't really needed.

To change the keyboard map you will need to find the appropriate section and make the changes.

#bsd, #config, #menu, #settings, #configuration, #tool, #freebsd, #keyboard, #layout, #gb.

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Following on from my previous post. I have been working on fixing the keyboard mapping issue.

Again, after asking for some help on this from IRC, I was given an example configuration file to work from.

/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

From this I have created a new X11 keyboard configuration file for the UK / GB keyboard layout. This now works, so at least pressing shift 2 gives “ and not @ which would happen on a US keyboard and was happening previously.

Now this is working, it is a little easier to play nethack as @ turns auto pickups off, which is very helpful when you don't want to pick up everything you come across.

#freebsd, #x11, #keyboard, #layout, #configuration, #irc, #nethack

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