swapping keys in a virtual terminal
Note: I asked this question in superuser about a month ago, but there hasn't been a reply till then, and the question relates to linux, so I'm posting it here.
I want to swap esc and caps_lock keys on my keyboard. setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape gets the job done but only for X. The keys behave in original way on a virtual console. How can I make them behave in the required way on a vc?
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Note: I asked this question in superuser about a month ago, but there hasn't been a reply till then, and the question relates to linux, so I'm posting it here.
I want to swap esc and caps_lock keys on my keyboard. setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape gets the job done but only for X. The keys behave in original way on a virtual console. How can I make them behave in the required way on a vc?
linux keyboard-shortcuts keyboard
asked Nov 28 '16 at 19:43
saga
786220
add a comment |
Note: I asked this question in superuser about a month ago, but there hasn't been a reply till then, and the question relates to linux, so I'm posting it here.
I want to swap esc and caps_lock keys on my keyboard. setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape gets the job done but only for X. The keys behave in original way on a virtual console. How can I make them behave in the required way on a vc?
linux keyboard-shortcuts keyboard
asked Nov 28 '16 at 19:43
saga
786220
Note: I asked this question in superuser about a month ago, but there hasn't been a reply till then, and the question relates to linux, so I'm posting it here.
I want to swap esc and caps_lock keys on my keyboard. setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape gets the job done but only for X. The keys behave in original way on a virtual console. How can I make them behave in the required way on a vc?
linux keyboard-shortcuts keyboard
linux keyboard-shortcuts keyboard
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Use loadkeys.
To swap Esc and Caps Lock in the console, run
printf 'keycode 1 = Caps_Lock Caps_Locknkeycode 58 = Escape Escapen' | sudo loadkeys -
answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
Nominal Animal
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Is it ok to set the sticky bit onloadkeys, so that I can put it in login script. Or shall I make another executable which callsloadkeysand set sticky bit on that.
– saga
Nov 29 '16 at 11:19
@Saga: Addsaga ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto/etc/sudoers(use e.g.EDITOR=nano visudoto edit the file withnano), create root-executable shell script/usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabthat runs the command shown in my answer, and finally addsudo /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto your login script.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:49
Note that when I have lots of such scripts, I tend to put the scripts that require root in/usr/local/admin-bin/, with simpleexec sudo /usr/local/admin-bin/command "$@"wrapper bash/dash scripts in/usr/local/bin/, and addnominal-animal ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/admin-bin/*to/etc/sudoers, so I can run those scripts as a normal user, only acquiring root for those specific scripts.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:55
Nice setup, I think I'll do the same.
– saga
Nov 30 '16 at 4:38
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Debian and console-setup
On Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD, the design is for the X server and the kernel virtual terminals to share one set of configuration information. The console-setup package provides tools and startup scripts that take the keyboard/font configuration of the X server, convert it, and use it to configure the kernel virtual terminals.
Specifically: The console-setup service invokes the setupcon --save command, which generates scripts in /etc/console-setup containing the converted keyboard and font setup instructions, which are run against the kernel virtual terminal devices by udev rules. The keyboard map is converted from XKB to loadkeys format by ckbcomp, and the generated script invoked from the udev rule runs loadkeys.
So on Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD you need to ensure that your XKBMODEL, XKBLAYOUT, XKBVARIANT, XKBOPTIONS variables are properly set in /etc/default/keyboard. In your case in particular you need to ensure that the XKBOPTIONS variable has caps:swapescape. Then you need to ensure that you have the console-setup package properly installed.
systemd Linux
On systemd operating systems, things are somewhat less integrated than on Debian. There's a configuration file named /etc/vconsole.conf and a service named systemd-vconsole-setup.service that processes it at system bootstrap (in response to a udev rule announcing the existence of the kernel virtual terminal subsystem). But this isn't joined up with the X server configuration at all.
The vconsole.conf file has a KEYMAP setting denoting the keyboard map that is passed to loadkeys, which again one does not need to explicitly run oneself. But it's left entirely up to you to create a (customized) keyboard map that swaps Caps Lock and Escape and put it where loadkeys can find it.
To get more joined up settings, one has to involve another two services, systemd-localed and the Desktop Bus. One runs, say,
localectl set-x11-keymap pl pc105 "" "caps:swapescape"and the locale D-BUS service goes and rewrites
/etc/vconsole.conf with its best guess as to the nearest equivalent map for the kernel virtual terminal. This nearest equivalent may not be exactly equivalent, though, and you may find it just outright ignoring options and suchlike.Of course, you could always alternatively use Debian's ckbcomp by hand to directly convert an XKB keyboard map. ☺
Further reading
- https://superuser.com/questions/709616/
- https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
systemd-vconsole-setup-service. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.
vconsole.conf. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- Karsten Hilbert (2014-08-29). console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting. #759657. Debian bug tracker.
localectl. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/479720/5132
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Use loadkeys.
To swap Esc and Caps Lock in the console, run
printf 'keycode 1 = Caps_Lock Caps_Locknkeycode 58 = Escape Escapen' | sudo loadkeys -
answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
Nominal Animal
2,830812
Is it ok to set the sticky bit onloadkeys, so that I can put it in login script. Or shall I make another executable which callsloadkeysand set sticky bit on that.
– saga
Nov 29 '16 at 11:19
@Saga: Addsaga ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto/etc/sudoers(use e.g.EDITOR=nano visudoto edit the file withnano), create root-executable shell script/usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabthat runs the command shown in my answer, and finally addsudo /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto your login script.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:49
Note that when I have lots of such scripts, I tend to put the scripts that require root in/usr/local/admin-bin/, with simpleexec sudo /usr/local/admin-bin/command "$@"wrapper bash/dash scripts in/usr/local/bin/, and addnominal-animal ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/admin-bin/*to/etc/sudoers, so I can run those scripts as a normal user, only acquiring root for those specific scripts.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:55
Nice setup, I think I'll do the same.
– saga
Nov 30 '16 at 4:38
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Use loadkeys.
To swap Esc and Caps Lock in the console, run
printf 'keycode 1 = Caps_Lock Caps_Locknkeycode 58 = Escape Escapen' | sudo loadkeys -
answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
Nominal Animal
2,830812
Is it ok to set the sticky bit onloadkeys, so that I can put it in login script. Or shall I make another executable which callsloadkeysand set sticky bit on that.
– saga
Nov 29 '16 at 11:19
@Saga: Addsaga ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto/etc/sudoers(use e.g.EDITOR=nano visudoto edit the file withnano), create root-executable shell script/usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabthat runs the command shown in my answer, and finally addsudo /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto your login script.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:49
Note that when I have lots of such scripts, I tend to put the scripts that require root in/usr/local/admin-bin/, with simpleexec sudo /usr/local/admin-bin/command "$@"wrapper bash/dash scripts in/usr/local/bin/, and addnominal-animal ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/admin-bin/*to/etc/sudoers, so I can run those scripts as a normal user, only acquiring root for those specific scripts.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:55
Nice setup, I think I'll do the same.
– saga
Nov 30 '16 at 4:38
add a comment |
Use loadkeys.
To swap Esc and Caps Lock in the console, run
printf 'keycode 1 = Caps_Lock Caps_Locknkeycode 58 = Escape Escapen' | sudo loadkeys -
answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
Nominal Animal
2,830812
Use loadkeys.
To swap Esc and Caps Lock in the console, run
printf 'keycode 1 = Caps_Lock Caps_Locknkeycode 58 = Escape Escapen' | sudo loadkeys -
answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
Nominal Animal
2,830812
answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
Nominal Animal
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answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
Nominal Animal
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answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:24
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Is it ok to set the sticky bit onloadkeys, so that I can put it in login script. Or shall I make another executable which callsloadkeysand set sticky bit on that.
– saga
Nov 29 '16 at 11:19
@Saga: Addsaga ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto/etc/sudoers(use e.g.EDITOR=nano visudoto edit the file withnano), create root-executable shell script/usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabthat runs the command shown in my answer, and finally addsudo /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto your login script.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:49
Note that when I have lots of such scripts, I tend to put the scripts that require root in/usr/local/admin-bin/, with simpleexec sudo /usr/local/admin-bin/command "$@"wrapper bash/dash scripts in/usr/local/bin/, and addnominal-animal ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/admin-bin/*to/etc/sudoers, so I can run those scripts as a normal user, only acquiring root for those specific scripts.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:55
Nice setup, I think I'll do the same.
– saga
Nov 30 '16 at 4:38
add a comment |
Is it ok to set the sticky bit onloadkeys, so that I can put it in login script. Or shall I make another executable which callsloadkeysand set sticky bit on that.
– saga
Nov 29 '16 at 11:19
@Saga: Addsaga ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto/etc/sudoers(use e.g.EDITOR=nano visudoto edit the file withnano), create root-executable shell script/usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabthat runs the command shown in my answer, and finally addsudo /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tabto your login script.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:49
Note that when I have lots of such scripts, I tend to put the scripts that require root in/usr/local/admin-bin/, with simpleexec sudo /usr/local/admin-bin/command "$@"wrapper bash/dash scripts in/usr/local/bin/, and addnominal-animal ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/admin-bin/*to/etc/sudoers, so I can run those scripts as a normal user, only acquiring root for those specific scripts.
– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:55
Nice setup, I think I'll do the same.
– saga
Nov 30 '16 at 4:38
Is it ok to set the sticky bit on
loadkeys, so that I can put it in login script. Or shall I make another executable which calls loadkeys and set sticky bit on that.– saga
Nov 29 '16 at 11:19
Is it ok to set the sticky bit on
loadkeys, so that I can put it in login script. Or shall I make another executable which calls loadkeys and set sticky bit on that.– saga
Nov 29 '16 at 11:19
@Saga: Add
saga ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tab to /etc/sudoers (use e.g. EDITOR=nano visudo to edit the file with nano), create root-executable shell script /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tab that runs the command shown in my answer, and finally add sudo /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tab to your login script.– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:49
@Saga: Add
saga ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tab to /etc/sudoers (use e.g. EDITOR=nano visudo to edit the file with nano), create root-executable shell script /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tab that runs the command shown in my answer, and finally add sudo /usr/local/bin/swap-esc-tab to your login script.– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:49
Note that when I have lots of such scripts, I tend to put the scripts that require root in
/usr/local/admin-bin/, with simple exec sudo /usr/local/admin-bin/command "$@" wrapper bash/dash scripts in /usr/local/bin/, and add nominal-animal ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/admin-bin/* to /etc/sudoers, so I can run those scripts as a normal user, only acquiring root for those specific scripts.– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:55
Note that when I have lots of such scripts, I tend to put the scripts that require root in
/usr/local/admin-bin/, with simple exec sudo /usr/local/admin-bin/command "$@" wrapper bash/dash scripts in /usr/local/bin/, and add nominal-animal ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/admin-bin/* to /etc/sudoers, so I can run those scripts as a normal user, only acquiring root for those specific scripts.– Nominal Animal
Nov 29 '16 at 20:55
Nice setup, I think I'll do the same.
– saga
Nov 30 '16 at 4:38
Nice setup, I think I'll do the same.
– saga
Nov 30 '16 at 4:38
add a comment |
Debian and console-setup
On Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD, the design is for the X server and the kernel virtual terminals to share one set of configuration information. The console-setup package provides tools and startup scripts that take the keyboard/font configuration of the X server, convert it, and use it to configure the kernel virtual terminals.
Specifically: The console-setup service invokes the setupcon --save command, which generates scripts in /etc/console-setup containing the converted keyboard and font setup instructions, which are run against the kernel virtual terminal devices by udev rules. The keyboard map is converted from XKB to loadkeys format by ckbcomp, and the generated script invoked from the udev rule runs loadkeys.
So on Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD you need to ensure that your XKBMODEL, XKBLAYOUT, XKBVARIANT, XKBOPTIONS variables are properly set in /etc/default/keyboard. In your case in particular you need to ensure that the XKBOPTIONS variable has caps:swapescape. Then you need to ensure that you have the console-setup package properly installed.
systemd Linux
On systemd operating systems, things are somewhat less integrated than on Debian. There's a configuration file named /etc/vconsole.conf and a service named systemd-vconsole-setup.service that processes it at system bootstrap (in response to a udev rule announcing the existence of the kernel virtual terminal subsystem). But this isn't joined up with the X server configuration at all.
The vconsole.conf file has a KEYMAP setting denoting the keyboard map that is passed to loadkeys, which again one does not need to explicitly run oneself. But it's left entirely up to you to create a (customized) keyboard map that swaps Caps Lock and Escape and put it where loadkeys can find it.
To get more joined up settings, one has to involve another two services, systemd-localed and the Desktop Bus. One runs, say,
localectl set-x11-keymap pl pc105 "" "caps:swapescape"and the locale D-BUS service goes and rewrites
/etc/vconsole.conf with its best guess as to the nearest equivalent map for the kernel virtual terminal. This nearest equivalent may not be exactly equivalent, though, and you may find it just outright ignoring options and suchlike.Of course, you could always alternatively use Debian's ckbcomp by hand to directly convert an XKB keyboard map. ☺
Further reading
- https://superuser.com/questions/709616/
- https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
systemd-vconsole-setup-service. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.
vconsole.conf. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- Karsten Hilbert (2014-08-29). console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting. #759657. Debian bug tracker.
localectl. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/479720/5132
answered Nov 29 '16 at 13:39
JdeBP
33.1k468156
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Debian and console-setup
On Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD, the design is for the X server and the kernel virtual terminals to share one set of configuration information. The console-setup package provides tools and startup scripts that take the keyboard/font configuration of the X server, convert it, and use it to configure the kernel virtual terminals.
Specifically: The console-setup service invokes the setupcon --save command, which generates scripts in /etc/console-setup containing the converted keyboard and font setup instructions, which are run against the kernel virtual terminal devices by udev rules. The keyboard map is converted from XKB to loadkeys format by ckbcomp, and the generated script invoked from the udev rule runs loadkeys.
So on Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD you need to ensure that your XKBMODEL, XKBLAYOUT, XKBVARIANT, XKBOPTIONS variables are properly set in /etc/default/keyboard. In your case in particular you need to ensure that the XKBOPTIONS variable has caps:swapescape. Then you need to ensure that you have the console-setup package properly installed.
systemd Linux
On systemd operating systems, things are somewhat less integrated than on Debian. There's a configuration file named /etc/vconsole.conf and a service named systemd-vconsole-setup.service that processes it at system bootstrap (in response to a udev rule announcing the existence of the kernel virtual terminal subsystem). But this isn't joined up with the X server configuration at all.
The vconsole.conf file has a KEYMAP setting denoting the keyboard map that is passed to loadkeys, which again one does not need to explicitly run oneself. But it's left entirely up to you to create a (customized) keyboard map that swaps Caps Lock and Escape and put it where loadkeys can find it.
To get more joined up settings, one has to involve another two services, systemd-localed and the Desktop Bus. One runs, say,
localectl set-x11-keymap pl pc105 "" "caps:swapescape"and the locale D-BUS service goes and rewrites
/etc/vconsole.conf with its best guess as to the nearest equivalent map for the kernel virtual terminal. This nearest equivalent may not be exactly equivalent, though, and you may find it just outright ignoring options and suchlike.Of course, you could always alternatively use Debian's ckbcomp by hand to directly convert an XKB keyboard map. ☺
Further reading
- https://superuser.com/questions/709616/
- https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
systemd-vconsole-setup-service. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.
vconsole.conf. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- Karsten Hilbert (2014-08-29). console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting. #759657. Debian bug tracker.
localectl. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/479720/5132
answered Nov 29 '16 at 13:39
JdeBP
33.1k468156
add a comment |
Debian and console-setup
On Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD, the design is for the X server and the kernel virtual terminals to share one set of configuration information. The console-setup package provides tools and startup scripts that take the keyboard/font configuration of the X server, convert it, and use it to configure the kernel virtual terminals.
Specifically: The console-setup service invokes the setupcon --save command, which generates scripts in /etc/console-setup containing the converted keyboard and font setup instructions, which are run against the kernel virtual terminal devices by udev rules. The keyboard map is converted from XKB to loadkeys format by ckbcomp, and the generated script invoked from the udev rule runs loadkeys.
So on Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD you need to ensure that your XKBMODEL, XKBLAYOUT, XKBVARIANT, XKBOPTIONS variables are properly set in /etc/default/keyboard. In your case in particular you need to ensure that the XKBOPTIONS variable has caps:swapescape. Then you need to ensure that you have the console-setup package properly installed.
systemd Linux
On systemd operating systems, things are somewhat less integrated than on Debian. There's a configuration file named /etc/vconsole.conf and a service named systemd-vconsole-setup.service that processes it at system bootstrap (in response to a udev rule announcing the existence of the kernel virtual terminal subsystem). But this isn't joined up with the X server configuration at all.
The vconsole.conf file has a KEYMAP setting denoting the keyboard map that is passed to loadkeys, which again one does not need to explicitly run oneself. But it's left entirely up to you to create a (customized) keyboard map that swaps Caps Lock and Escape and put it where loadkeys can find it.
To get more joined up settings, one has to involve another two services, systemd-localed and the Desktop Bus. One runs, say,
localectl set-x11-keymap pl pc105 "" "caps:swapescape"and the locale D-BUS service goes and rewrites
/etc/vconsole.conf with its best guess as to the nearest equivalent map for the kernel virtual terminal. This nearest equivalent may not be exactly equivalent, though, and you may find it just outright ignoring options and suchlike.Of course, you could always alternatively use Debian's ckbcomp by hand to directly convert an XKB keyboard map. ☺
Further reading
- https://superuser.com/questions/709616/
- https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
systemd-vconsole-setup-service. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.
vconsole.conf. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- Karsten Hilbert (2014-08-29). console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting. #759657. Debian bug tracker.
localectl. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/479720/5132
answered Nov 29 '16 at 13:39
JdeBP
33.1k468156
Debian and console-setup
On Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD, the design is for the X server and the kernel virtual terminals to share one set of configuration information. The console-setup package provides tools and startup scripts that take the keyboard/font configuration of the X server, convert it, and use it to configure the kernel virtual terminals.
Specifically: The console-setup service invokes the setupcon --save command, which generates scripts in /etc/console-setup containing the converted keyboard and font setup instructions, which are run against the kernel virtual terminal devices by udev rules. The keyboard map is converted from XKB to loadkeys format by ckbcomp, and the generated script invoked from the udev rule runs loadkeys.
So on Debian Linux and Debian FreeBSD you need to ensure that your XKBMODEL, XKBLAYOUT, XKBVARIANT, XKBOPTIONS variables are properly set in /etc/default/keyboard. In your case in particular you need to ensure that the XKBOPTIONS variable has caps:swapescape. Then you need to ensure that you have the console-setup package properly installed.
systemd Linux
On systemd operating systems, things are somewhat less integrated than on Debian. There's a configuration file named /etc/vconsole.conf and a service named systemd-vconsole-setup.service that processes it at system bootstrap (in response to a udev rule announcing the existence of the kernel virtual terminal subsystem). But this isn't joined up with the X server configuration at all.
The vconsole.conf file has a KEYMAP setting denoting the keyboard map that is passed to loadkeys, which again one does not need to explicitly run oneself. But it's left entirely up to you to create a (customized) keyboard map that swaps Caps Lock and Escape and put it where loadkeys can find it.
To get more joined up settings, one has to involve another two services, systemd-localed and the Desktop Bus. One runs, say,
localectl set-x11-keymap pl pc105 "" "caps:swapescape"and the locale D-BUS service goes and rewrites
/etc/vconsole.conf with its best guess as to the nearest equivalent map for the kernel virtual terminal. This nearest equivalent may not be exactly equivalent, though, and you may find it just outright ignoring options and suchlike.Of course, you could always alternatively use Debian's ckbcomp by hand to directly convert an XKB keyboard map. ☺
Further reading
- https://superuser.com/questions/709616/
- https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
systemd-vconsole-setup-service. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.
vconsole.conf. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- Karsten Hilbert (2014-08-29). console-setup w/ systemd forgets font setting. #759657. Debian bug tracker.
localectl. systemd manual pages. Freedesktop.org.- https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/479720/5132
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StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
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Post as a guest
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Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
