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Model Specific Forums => Gemini PDA => Gemini PDA - Linux => Topic started by: jornada720 on May 07, 2018, 06:38:19 pm

Title: So has anyone gotten the Function layer keys to work yet?
Post by: jornada720 on May 07, 2018, 06:38:19 pm

I booted into Debian a few days ago but haven't used it much due to no graphical acceleration and the inability to generate characters like quotation mark or slash, all mandatory stuff for Unix operation.

Do we even know if the key sends a hardware or a software event?

I'm guessing one could use xmodmap for these symbols via the Alt key if Function requires a driver to work.

Title: So has anyone gotten the Function layer keys to work yet?
Post by: Adam Boardman on May 09, 2018, 12:25:53 pm

The downloadable image is way out of date in comparison to what the latest state of thing is. You need to update all the things: DebianTP (https://github.com/gemian/gemini-keyboard-apps/wiki/DebianTP)

Proper keyboard maps are implemented for the majority of users: xkeyboard-config (https://github.com/gemian/xkeyboard-config/blob/stretch/symbols/planet_vndr/gemini)

Title: So has anyone gotten the Function layer keys to work yet?
Post by: Isaac on May 10, 2018, 06:25:29 pm

Should one expect the xkeyboard-config stuff to work in a chroot under Android? I am running Debian and Ubuntu under Linux Deploy which is pretty great except that it seems to have the same keyboard mapping issues, so I am missing forward slash and dash keys which are super critical obviously.