[SOLVED] Wine and Starcraft azerty keyboard units group problem finally solved !

Linux.tar.gz · 06-23-2013, 05:32 PM

Hi !

For all Starcraft - Broodwar players that have problems with keyboard, with group of units selection not working, like being forced to press Alt to select units, here's the workaround.

First, create a dump of your current keyboard layout:
xkbcomp $DISPLAY current-layout.dump

And another one you will modify:
xkbcomp $DISPLAY craft-layout.dump

Now edit the craft layout, around lines 1100, where you see:

Code:

    key <AE01> {
        type= "FOUR_LEVEL",
        symbols[Group1]= [       1,               ampersand,     onesuperior,      exclamdown ]
    };
    key <AE02> {
        type= "FOUR_LEVEL",
        symbols[Group1]= [          2,               eacute,      asciitilde,       oneeighth ]
    };

Then you just have to swap number and characters from 1 to 0, e.g.:

Code:

    key <AE01> {
        type= "FOUR_LEVEL",
        symbols[Group1]= [       ampersand,               1,     onesuperior,      exclamdown ]
    };
    key <AE02> {
        type= "FOUR_LEVEL",
        symbols[Group1]= [          eacute,               2,      asciitilde,       oneeighth ]
    };

etc..

Now, before launching Starcraft:

Code:

xkbcomp craft-layout.dump $DISPLAY

And after, to get back to the normal layout:

Code:

xkbcomp normal-layout.dump $DISPLAY

On my french azerty keyboard, 5 doesn't work, so i swapped 5 and 0, so all keys from 1-9 are working perfectly, i can create and select groups without having to use Alt.

Linux.tar.gz · 04-18-2018, 08:00 PM

Can't edit the first post so a bit of errata:

The two "around 1100 line" code blocks are in the wrong order.

The last block is:

Code:

xkbcomp current-layout.dump $DISPLAY