Acer 4520 Euro Key

ThiagoMZ · 07-08-2008, 10:03 AM

Hi there !

I have a Acer Aspire 4520 with brazilian keyboard layout (ABNT2) that works fine... but for me access my slash key '/' I need to press "Alt Gr" + S, that is sux, to work with my linux, that keyboard has a EURO key (http://www.tech2.com/media/images/20...ire_5920_7.jpg) <-- Almost like that.

How can I identify the key code and remap it to use slash ?

tredegar · 07-08-2008, 11:47 AM

In a terminal enter
xev
Then press the € key, you will see its keycode in the terminal
<CTRL>-c to exit xev (or just close the terminal)

[Edit] To remap the € key you can use xmodmap
For example, I hate the "CapsLock" on my laptop, so I have changed it to "Shift" by having an executable file called FixCapsLock in /home/tred/.kde/Autostart

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Disable the stupid "Caps Lock" key, and make it "Shift":
xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "add Shift = Caps_Lock"

Please see man xmodmap for more details.
[/Edit]

ThiagoMZ · 07-08-2008, 07:26 PM

tredegar,

I tried use xev, but the Euro key € don´t generated any signal... I used that regex to capture only the signal's

xev | grep -A2 --line-buffered '^KeyRelease' | sed -n '/keycode /s/^.*keycode $[0-9]*$.* (.*, $.*$).*$/\1 \2/p'

I got signal to other keys, but for Euro and Dollar key nothing.

any idea ?

I found that for windows XP http://emtek.net.nz/blog/category/acer4520/

I tried the codes, but didn't work too.

tredegar · 07-09-2008, 04:02 AM

Strange.
Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS that controls what those keys do?
Maybe upgrade your BIOS?

jlinkels · 07-13-2008, 09:06 PM

That seems to be normal behaviour for ACERs not generate any key codes fro that € and $ keys. I am installing a 5315 and have the same issue, so do other users.

BTW your image link doesn't work.

jlinkels

ThiagoMZ · 07-14-2008, 06:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlinkels

That seems to be normal behaviour for ACERs not generate any key codes fro that € and $ keys. I am installing a 5315 and have the same issue, so do other users.

BTW your image link doesn't work.

jlinkels

I resolved my problem, look at your /var/log/messages and you will see the code.

I´m not now with my laptop, ASAP i will update this post with the solution and the shortcuts to all special keys.

PS.: Strange here the image link works.