On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:51:11 +0100, Peter Hutterer
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Thomas Worthington wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to convert my system to hald and I've some issues
with
my keyboard. The keyboard is an IBM model M 102-key with a British
layout.
If I execute
setxkbmap -rules xorg -model pc102 -layout gb -option ctrl:nocaps
then none of the arrow, home, delete etc. keys work. But if I do
setxkbmap -v -rules xorg -model evdev -layout gb -option ctrl:nocaps
then the system responds with
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+gb+inet(evdev)+ctrl(nocaps)
geometry: pc(pc104)
I don't have 104 keys so I tried
setxkbmap -v -rules xorg -model evdev -geometry pc102 -layout gb -option
ctrl:nocaps
And that responds with:
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+gb+inet(evdev)+ctrl(nocaps)
geometry: pc102
Error loading new keyboard description
and appears to do nothing.
So that's the first issue: how do I get the system to recognize that
I've
got a 102-key keyboard.
unless you want to paint pretty pictures of your keyboard it doesn't
really
matter which geometry is picked. and IIRC except br and jp all layouts
default to pc104 now for that reason.
with evdev, the "model" is partially obsolete since it's now
standardised by
the kernel.
The second issue is a more general one. Because I have only 102 keys,
I've
put together quite an unusual keymap which I've applied with xmodmap up
until now. The most important mapping are:
AltGr produces Meta_R and Mod3
Alt produces Alt_L
Print produces Multi_kry
Scroll Lock produces Mode Switch
Pause produces Caps Lock
Caps Lock produces Control (this one I can do!)
How do I get the xorg keyboard driver to produce these same mappings?
xkeyboard-config has the mappings that allow you to specify "ctrl:nocaps"
and the map then filled in with the right keysyms. Your chanages For any
changes you want to add, it's best to write it up as options.
OK. I couldn't work out how to get setxkbmap to recognize a completely new
symbol file ("customised") so I hacked altwin to read:
partial modifier_keys
xkb_symbols "meta_alt" {
key <LALT> { [ Alt_L ] };
key <RALT> { [ Meta_R ] };
key <PRSC> { [ Multi_key ] };
key <SCLK> { [ Mode_switch ] };
key <PAUS> { [ Caps_Lock ] };
modifier_map Mod3 { Meta_R };
modifier_map Mod1 { Alt_L };
// modifier_map Mod4 {};
};
and used -option altwin:meta_alt
I would far rather have put the new mappings into a file on their own;
what else needs updated to allow setxkbmap to read new symbol tables and
new entries within existing ones, for that matter?
Also: is there a program which will dump out the keycodes, so that I can
find out which keys correspond to which <CODE> when I'm using a strange
keyboard and want to remap it?
Thomas Worthington
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