How to change keyboard for Cack QTopia ROM?

[DReymann]

Hi,

I use the latest Cacko-QTopia-ROM for my C760 because I think it is the most usable ROM in the moment. Thanks for that great work!

There are different Keyboard-Layouts available as part of the ROM, which are defined in ~/Applications/cyrillica/ files and seem to depend on a package called cyrillica.

I would like to adapt especially the german layout a little bit (for example to have the ü-Umlaut using FN-u, Euro-Sign at SHIFT-Fn-e) because that is closer to the Desktop-PC-Layout.

I did not find a description of the cyrillica-package anywhere. As far as I understand the layout files, there are different sections in the file dealing with the unicode-values for letters:
[label]
the language-shortcut
[screen]
seems to be the screen-keyboard
[keyboard]
has three columns for each redefined key - I guess first column original key, second new Shift+key, third new key ?
[keyboard-fn]
same as above for FN-key?

Is there a description anywhere?

Any hint is welcome.

Detlev

[Laze]

Try the latest rom at http://www.cacko.biz/test321/slc7x0-Qtopia...-1910040104.zip - it includes german characters

[Anonymous]

[screen]
seems to be the screen-keyboard

YES


[keyboard]
has three columns for each redefined key - I guess first column original key, second new Shift+key, third new key ?

first - original char, second - Shift+key, third - key


[keyboard-fn]
same as above for FN-key?

first - original char generated Fn+key, second - Fn+Shift+key, third - Fn+key

[DReymann]

Hello,

thanks for that information.

Two additional questions:

1. Is there a source for the keycodes, which are generated by the C760 keyboard? E.g. I found, that 0x2015 is Fn+o, but I also would like to have the code for Fn+u for example and so on.

2. Would it be possible to remap the both (for me useless) japanese keys besides Fn? For example to have Jap1+1 as F1 or similar?

Thanks in advance

Detlev

[DReymann]

Hi,

meanwhile I found the keycodes as part of the QTopia-headers.  There are the keycodes and the symbolic names. The last one is visible as output from keyhelper_conf, if you don\'t know what \"F26\" or \"cent\" keys and so on are.

I changed the german keyboard layout so that:

Fn+a = ä
Fn+Shift+a = Ä
Fn+o = ö
Fn+Shift+o = Ö
Fn+u = ü
Fn+Shift+u = Ü
Fn+s = ß
Fn+e = = (as default
Fn+Shift+e = €

This is very much more close to desktop-keyboard-layout and we Germans need those characters quite often!

If someboy (especially the Cacko-Team) is interested to include that into the distributions you have to replace the sections [keyboard] and
[keyboard-fn] as follows:

----- snip -----------
[keyboard]

0   0   0

[keyboard-fn]
0x3d   0x20ac   0x3d   #euro
0x2015   0x0d6   0x0f6   #oe
0x2017   0x0c4   0x0e4   #ae
0x2018   0x0df   0x0df   #ss
0x0a2   0x0dc   0x0fc   #ue

0   0   0
-------- snip -------------

The only wish I still have is to map japanese-left+1 as F1 and so on.
:?
Any hint for that?

Detlev

[ShiroiKuma]

Hi:

I'm also looking for the keycodes...

meanwhile I found the keycodes as part of the QTopia-headers.  There are the keycodes and the symbolic names. The last one is visible as output from keyhelper_conf, if you don't know what "F26" or "cent" keys and so on are.

I don't know what this means. Where can I find it on my system?


Thanks.

Later.

[tn]

I created a nice swedish keybord mapping file for cyrillic. It should be included in this message. Just take the file, put it in ~/Applications/cyrillica/. You probably need to be super user.

[maslovsky]

I created a nice swedish keybord mapping file for cyrillic. It should be included in this message. Just take the file, put it in ~/Applications/cyrillica/. You probably need to be super user.

Thank you. I will include it into the next ROM version.