Press bed or xbed to start the program.

Sometimes problems with the screen or keys are solved by copying another
terminfo file to /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm or setting TERM to another value.
For example in my variant of Redhat 7.1 and ncurses-5.2 Konsole: 1.0.1 gives 
a messed up screen when paging with   
TERM=xterm bed /dev/hda
gnome-terminal 1.2.4 makes paint errors with TERM=xterm
both are solved by using TERM=rxvt
For if you don't have this terminfo file, you can copy it from
CONFDIRLINK/r/rxvt to TERMINFO/r/rxvt. (TERMINFO is you terminfo dir,
something like /usr/share/terminfo).

If the coloring is terrible you can try black and white only with 
"bed -B".  If this is o.k. you can try to edit ~/.bedrc (copy from bedrc) 
to change the color names. 

If you use a different configuration from me, some keys possibly don't work.

If you are using a virtual console you can use ./bedkeys instead of bed.
It saves the current translation table, loads my keyboard table and
after termination of bed reloads the old table again (this 
keyboard table is shared by all virtual consoles). 

You can also modify how bed interprets keys (see man bed). 
With Alt-t,k you can view the current keybinding and how to describe
a key combination.

The missing keybinding of bed as mentioned in it's menu can be set by pressing:

     bed -k

If keys are disabled by the keyboard translation tables this will not work. 
It will also not work if you keyboard translation tables have 
codes bound to a different key. In that case you can possibly remove
the old key defintions out of ~/.bedrc.

The new key bindings will be applied if the TERM variable has the same
value as now. If you want to make it dependent on an other variable
place it below a different "context var val" statement (see man 1 bed).

If something is unclear or wrong send me a email or SMS (for fast responds).


Email: jkaltes@cyberbrain.com 

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