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Old 11-10-2006, 09:40 AM   #1
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Strange keyboard behavior


Sorry if a question is too simple to ask it here, but I really have no idea what to do.
I have just installed a system, and on virtual terminal the "Delete" key inserts the '~' symbol, I thought te problem could be in the inputrc file, but when I copied it from another system, where everything worked, nothing changed. Where can I read what to do?
The distro isn't Arch actually, but I think CRUX and Arch are very similar, and there is no topic for CRUX.
 
Old 11-11-2006, 07:28 AM   #2
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No, the question is not absolutely trivial. Also, if it is near-to-trivial, but search gives nothing, it should be fixed.

Run showkey. Press supposed Delete. Post keycode. See in /etc/sysconfig/console name of keymap, find it in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ , zcat it and post. Maybe it will be sufficient just to back up the file, gunzip it, put "Delete" as last word in line saying just "keycode <number> = ..." instead of what it was, and gzip back. Or "Remove".
 
Old 11-11-2006, 09:02 AM   #3
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Thanks, I tried to do so.
I've edited the 'us.map' and loaded it manually. There are some changes - now Delete works as Backspace, but it is said in /etc/inputrc:
"\e[3~": delete-char
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Hmmm... And looking through man pages for keymaps and readline I found, that by default "\C-d" works as Delete should. But it's not so comfortable to use this keys combination.
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And during theese experiments I got a new question - how can I find what escape-combination ("\e[3~" for example) the key generates? Is something like "showkey" for it?
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my us.map after editing:
Code:
# us.map
keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
alt_is_meta
include "qwerty-layout"
include "linux-with-alt-and-altgr"
include "compose.latin1"
include "euro1.map"
strings as usual

keycode   1 = Escape
keycode   2 = one              exclam
keycode   3 = two              at               at               nul              nul
keycode   4 = three            numbersign
	control	keycode   4 = Escape
keycode   5 = four             dollar           dollar           Control_backslash
keycode   6 = five             percent
	control	keycode   6 = Control_bracketright
keycode   7 = six              asciicircum
	control	keycode   7 = Control_asciicircum
keycode   8 = seven            ampersand        braceleft        Control_underscore
keycode   9 = eight            asterisk         bracketleft      Delete
keycode  10 = nine             parenleft        bracketright
keycode  11 = zero             parenright       braceright
keycode  12 = minus            underscore       backslash        Control_underscore Control_underscore
keycode  13 = equal            plus
keycode  14 = Delete
keycode  15 = Tab
keycode  26 = bracketleft      braceleft
	control	keycode  26 = Escape
keycode  27 = bracketright     braceright       asciitilde       Control_bracketright
keycode  28 = Return
	alt	keycode  28 = Meta_Control_m
keycode  29 = Control
keycode  39 = semicolon        colon
keycode  40 = apostrophe       quotedbl
	control	keycode  40 = Control_g
keycode  41 = grave            asciitilde
	control	keycode  41 = nul
keycode  42 = Shift
keycode  43 = backslash        bar
	control	keycode  43 = Control_backslash
keycode  51 = comma            less
keycode  52 = period           greater
keycode  53 = slash            question
	control keycode  53 = Control_underscore
	control shift keycode 53 = Delete
keycode  54 = Shift
keycode  56 = Alt
keycode  57 = space
	control	keycode  57 = nul
keycode  58 = Caps_Lock
keycode  86 = less             greater          bar
keycode  97 = Control
keycode 110 = Insert
keycode 111 = Delete
Also I wanted to say that 'Insert', 'PgUp', 'PgDn' insert '~' too, and the string
keycode 110 = Insert
was useless somewhy...

I should apologize for theese questions, I've installed this distribution to study, and I want to find most answers on my own. I've searched a lot in the Internet, but it was nearly useless...
 
Old 11-11-2006, 12:07 PM   #4
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Well.. As a quick reply - if you complain about lack of information, there must be 'man keymaps'. Note - reading man page sometimes means reading its transitive closure. Also, maybe post dumpkeys output. And table of showkeys results for every key.
Also read man readline.
 
  


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