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Title: Help: zdebian/keypebble and keymap problems
Post by: rinsewin on August 23, 2004, 04:03:10 am

Hi There,

I have an SL-C860 with Cacko 1.21b installed.

I've installed the zdebian software from pocketworkstation, and I've been using keypebble to hook into the vncsession (I haven't managed to get fbvnc to work the way I would like).  Everything works fine except for one _really_ annoying little thing........

The shift+number special characters refuse to display in the vncsession ie." !@#$%" etc all default to "12345" etc.  All the other keys are fine just shift and everthing across to top row are screwed up (except  for Del/BS).

I've searched for xmodmap/loadkeys and they dont appear to be part of the zdebian install.  I've tried editing the zvncserver script to pass in another keymap to the Xvnc using the -kbmap arg but I can't seem to get that to work either (it defaults to its normal keymap because it cant find the one I want to point it to).

Has anyone else seen this?  Is this a by product of me using keypebble rather than fbvnc?  How does zdebian/vnc/keypebble deal with keymaps?  Can this be solved or should I give up on the dream of being able to jump between Qtopia Calendar Manager and Mozilla Thunderbird without rebooting?

Thanks in advance for any help,

rinsewin.

Title: Help: zdebian/keypebble and keymap problems
Post by: rinsewin on August 28, 2004, 04:32:32 am

Hi,

I'm now completely convinced that keypebble is broken... at least of the c860's.  The shift + num characters dont show this is  not only for the debian stuff but also for any vncsession tight, real, tridia you name it.

I've searched for a development area of bug list for keypebble but I can't find anything, has development on this app stopped?

Has anybody else out there had this issue when running keypebble on the clam shell models?  Are there any alternatives?  Fbvnc could be but there is apparently a VT switching bug or something which I cant find any information on either

rinsewin.

Title: Help: zdebian/keypebble and keymap problems
Post by: Stubear on August 28, 2004, 05:05:10 am

Try X/Qt instead - thst way you don't have to stop qtopia to use zdebian

Stu