[opensuse] Something chnasged my keymap
I know what lives in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps and I know how to change my keymaps, but that do the mean/ OK, ignore the non English ones. But something changed. The left hand ctl key stopped working in 12.2 and doesn't work in 12.3. I wasn't given choices about this when doing the install. I did't even cunt the number of keys on this keyboard :-( If I'm in GUI mode, the left alt+Fn key doesn't hotkey to another vt, only the tight alt+Fn key doens that/. But if I'm in a Vt, only the left Alt+Fn takes me to another vt or back to the GUI, the right Alt+Fn does nothing. It didn't used to be like that with 11.4 on this hardware; when I insert my fedora drive or my magia drive to this hardware it doesn't behave like that either. "Obviously" im missing something but my knowledge and understanding of the mystique under /usr/share/kbd is primitive and exists somewhere between non-existent and following magic incantations. I'd like to restore function but don't know the magic. And yes I've been wading though google ... yet remain unenlightened. -- Plurality is never to be posited without need. --Occam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
I know what lives in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps and I know how to change my keymaps, but that do the mean/
OK, ignore the non English ones.
But something changed.
What keyboard layout are you using? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
James Knott said the following on 03/18/2013 12:05 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
I know what lives in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps and I know how to change my keymaps, but that do the mean/
OK, ignore the non English ones.
But something changed.
What keyboard layout are you using?
like I said, my knowledge in this area is minimal. I found a google page on changing it but I don't know anything else, like what it is now. This is my best guess: /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: <quote> ## Path: Hardware/Keyboard ## Description: Keyboard settings ## Type: string ## Default: "" ## ServiceRestart: kbd # # Keyboard settings for the text console # # Keyboard mapping # (/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/) # e.g. KEYTABLE="de-latin1-nodeadkeys", "us" or empty for US settings # KEYTABLE="us.map.gz" </quote> Like you, James, I'm in Canada - M2 country. I don't see a 'Canadian' key map. And I don't have a dorky French Canadian keyboard. -- APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
Like you, James, I'm in Canada - M2 country. I don't see a 'Canadian' key map. And I don't have a dorky French Canadian keyboard.
You can verify easily in Configure Desktop > Input Devices. I use the U.S. International layout, as it provides special characters by using the right Alt key. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 03/18/2013 12:59 PM, James Knott wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Like you, James, I'm in Canada - M2 country. I don't see a 'Canadian' key map. And I don't have a dorky French Canadian keyboard.
You can verify easily in Configure Desktop > Input Devices. I use the U.S. International layout, as it provides special characters by using the right Alt key. Would making the alt key into a Compose key work as well or better? (I don't have opensuse anymore,but I assume you have the option to make a Compose key.)
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Doug wrote:
You can verify easily in Configure Desktop > Input Devices. I use the U.S. International layout, as it provides special characters by using the right Alt key. Would making the alt key into a Compose key work as well or better? (I don't have opensuse anymore,but I assume you have the option to make a Compose key.) The Wikipedia article I linked to shows the U.S. International layout. You can do this in Linux & Windows. It includes compose keys, as mentioned elsewhere in that article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
James Knott said the following on 03/18/2013 01:17 PM:
Doug wrote:
You can verify easily in Configure Desktop > Input Devices. I use the U.S. International layout, as it provides special characters by using the right Alt key. Would making the alt key into a Compose key work as well or better? (I don't have opensuse anymore,but I assume you have the option to make a Compose key.) The Wikipedia article I linked to shows the U.S. International layout. You can do this in Linux & Windows. It includes compose keys, as mentioned elsewhere in that article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International
And what is that so far as the setting in /etc/sysconfig and what's under /usr/share/kbd goes? I'm spoilt for choice and even when the files are plain text and there is a description of contents, there's nothing telling what to do with it, how it all links together. I'm sure there's a google reference to something useful but so far all I've read has been on the mechanics of changing and a bit on what chords to strike. -- Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
And what is that so far as the setting in /etc/sysconfig and what's under /usr/share/kbd goes?
I think those are for the basic system, before a user changes them in Configure Desktop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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