# Down the rabbit hole  9front pt3

I have worked a little through my To-Do list from last time.


## Keyboard remapping for missing windows key

I needed to reassign a key for Kmod4 due to having no windows key.

Initially I was going to use Alt but was told it was used as the
compose key for typing special characters. 

Firstly I remapped Alt-gr.  But when I actually came to use it, there
were functions where you had to hold the button and use the arrow
keys, which was practically impossible.

In the end I settled upon remapping Alt to Kmod4 (windows key) and
Alt-gr to Alt.  This feels a lot more natural as the buttons are
practically where they were intended to be if I'd had a windows key:
> 0	56	0xf868 # alt to windows key
> 2	56	0xf015 # alt-gr to alt


## Getting sound working

Fairly easy fix from reading the manual.

The headphone socket was easily identifiable, once that had been
enabled I had sound and near deafened myself.  Echoing a more
reasonable value into /dev/volume reduced the sound to a more sensible
level.

Both settings were added to my $home/lib/profile:
> echo pin 27 > /dev/audioctl
> echo 70 > /dev/volume


## Change rio windows to white on black

Today I was reading through a 9front added feature list and discovered
that rio had a flag to do this.  It was simply a matter of adding -b
to the rio startup line in my profile.


## riow and winwatch on login

Now that I once again have virtual desktops I don't feel I need
winwatch.

winwatch was really just a crutch to save me being overwhelmed by too
many windows and losing everything.

The past few days have been a good reminder why I prefer tiling window
managers and virtual desktops.  They really do make keeping your work
space organized much easier.


## Screen resolution

I did a little digging today and I think my graphics card is supported
by igfx.  The output[1] seems to suggest that igfx should allow me
full resolution at 1920x1200.  However, on trying to initialize it, I
get this error:
> term% aux/vga -m igfx -l '1920x1200x32'
> aux/vga: main: igfx@1920x1200x32 not in /lib/vgadb


## Summary
There is a bit of satisfaction, and relief, to actually now use the
system for doing something useful.  This text was written in acme to a
9fs filesystem, mounted over ssh, from my OpenBSD server.

No longer do I need to be connected to the server via ssh to edit the
files directly or scp the files across from my local system.  The
process now is as simple as writing a file to a local filesystem.

The mail attachment downloads directory is also shared in the same
way, so that I have easy local access.  No more scp downloading email
attachments!


[1]( gopher://gopher.icu/0/files/output-of-aux-vga--vga.txt )