Im runing Solaris 10 - but im having problems with the keyboard.
Instead of - i get /, and instead of y i get z, etc. I tried changing every option in the menu "Keyboard Behaviour". I also tried changing kmdconfig from xorg to xsun, but then the graphics goes all wild and ugly - although the keyboard works fine then. Also cant change resolution in xsun mode.
By the way, im runing Solaris from Vmware, but i doubt this has anything to do with this.
Leave the graphic environment to the console:
dtconfig -d
dtconfig -reset
Select the correct keyboard layout you use:
kbd -s
Load it:
loadkeys
Check the keys are working properly. If okay, enable the graphical environment again:
dtconfig -e
If that still works, make that choice persistent after a reboot by updating your eeprom. eg:
eeprom kbd-type=Spanish
This should be migrated to superuser.com
It seems that you are expecting a german keyboard layout but are getting a US layout - at least the differences you are seeing are differences between those layouts. I don't know where to change that in openSolaris, but maybe it helps you find the correct place to look. Whatever desktop environment that you are using, it should have a tool to change the keyboard layout, probably somewhere with the other internationalization settings.
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I installed Cinnamon Manjaro linux on my 2017 QWERTY Macbook Air. Kernel: 5.4.27-1-MANJARO.
I've tried changing my keyboard languages, but my compose key always produces the same behavior -- that of a US (intl) keyboard. I don't know why.
I've tried setting my compose key to different things, like LWin or RAlt, no luck.
Ideally, I want the same key behavior as that on Mac. My current keyboard layout is English (Macintosh). Everything works, except for all of the compose key combos / accents, which all seem to produce US(intl) dead key outputs.
Things I've tried:
changing my keyboard layouts, from GUI to setxkbmap.
changing my compose key
manually setting the value of Option "Xkblayout" "mac" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
Failing to understand how to manually force set the accent keys I want via xmodmap :(
Thanks for the help.
Solved: I realized that there was another keyboard which Xorg was somehow (I don't know how) set to, other than English (Macbook). I ran setxbmap -option which had the effect of "resetting" my keyboard to the layout I'd correctly chosen via the GUI.
I don't much understand how / why Xorg persisted in using another keyboard layout despite what I had entered in the GUI keyboard settings -- somehow it survived a reset through multiple computer restarts throughout these past days. But it works.
For the most part I very much like Qt Creator, but a few projects I'm working on require me to switch between my editor and my web browser for reference. Qt Creator is currently interpreting Alt+Tab to autocomplete, and then switching my window focus; this is a mild problem but it's really starting to get to me.
I've tried going to Tools→Options→Keyboard and searching for Alt+Tab, but found nothing. Is there a way to get it to selectively ignore the key combination without disabling autocomplete on the whole?
To complete the picture, I'm on Linux Mint 19.04 using XFCE desktop environment; or occasionally Maté. If I need to access something in system settings to do this I'm happy to; I just don't want to keep excessively second-guessing my code when I return to it.
Auto-complete is bound to Ctrl+Space by default, not Alt+Tab. In tools/options/keyboard, search for "CompleteThis" to see what it's bound to.
Maybe what you want is to disable auto-complete and use only manual-complete? That is, have the auto-complete list only show when you press ctrl+space, but never automatically. You can do that in options/text editor/completion.
I am using Visual Studio Code with English keyboard layout switched in Windows when programming, but when I am using my computer for general use I use Slovak keyboard layout. Sometimes it can get ridiculous when I switch from one to another multiple times in one minute. Is there a setting (or a plugin) that could set the keyboard layout in VS Code to English while Windows layout is still set to Slovak?
I will summarize for you the solution to this, hope it is still helpful for you or any other looking for this answer:
you have to press Ctrl+Alt+P
then in the display that will appear at the top, write the language you want in case it does not appear
once this is done, VSC will ask you to restart.
once restarted is done it should be fine.
It is the way to do it without changing windows configuration as you will see in ther similar posts.
Hope it helps
I made a text editor and I want to port it to Linux such that I can use it remotely via SSH. I don't know much about Linux terminals, so maybe I'm missing something obvious, because I just can't believe that in 2013 there's still no way for a remote terminal to distinguish between Ctrl+M and Enter, or between Ctrl+H and Backspace, or even get any events at all for Ctrl+Left/Right/Up/Down, and so on. I tried ncurses and libtermkey to no avail. The question is, is there any effort or discussion in the Linux community on modernizing or replacing the linux terminal protocol(s) to something that supports full keyboard and mouse interaction and possibly full color, i.e. something that would allow for text user-interfaces without huge usability compromises?
As far as I know, the Linux console terminal just doesn't support this, full stop. If you want to try raising a patch, you could have a go at implementing the full CSI-encoded reporting scheme. It is documented here.
libtermkey will recognise the key sequences if sent, but the fix has to go into the terminal first of all to send them in the first place.
Is there a way to map Cmd+C to Copy in linux? (instead of Ctrl+C)
Would be nice if I could also have the emacs style ones, like Ctrl+B to move left by one character.
Is there a way, on Linux/X, to map certain key combos to other key combos?
In the tradition of all open source projects, there's not a way, there are several. At the lowest level you've got kernel keybindings, which is probably not what you want. At the X server level you've got xkb with its myriad utilities. And then it seems that every window manager - gnome, kde, xfce or other - also has a keymapping utility. xkb seems to have lots of utils and such around it, and is likely more complete than any random window manager's keymapping utils, so I'd look at that first.
KDE 3 is probably the most flexible here; there's a pre-defined keyboard shortcut scheme named "Mac Scheme". You can set it through KControl Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Shortcuts or kcmshell keys and it will have effect on almost all KDE applications immediately. You might miss some of those Emacs-like "Ctrl-*" shortcuts that OS X has, but that aside, it works well (as long as your X modifiers are mapped correctly). And if it's not to your liking, it's easily customizable.
You can also set Control Center > Desktop > Behavior to enable a Mac OS-like menubar; all KDE applications will then share a menubar at the top of the screen instead of being individually attached to each window.
Update 02/03/2020
Kinto has now been rewritten in C for Ubuntu/Debian systems using x11. It also uses json config files, making it easier to manage and extend to other applications than just terminals. The app no longer maps to Super in the Terminal apps, it will now properly map to Ctrl+Shift to create the exact same feel as having a Cmd key.
Please checkout the latest release.
https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
The main change to allow for the Super = Ctrl+Shift change is in this symbols file.
default partial xkb_symbols "mac_levelssym" {
key <LWIN> {
repeat= no,
type= "ONE_LEVEL",
symbols[Group1]= [ Hyper_L ],
actions[group1]=[ SetMods(modifiers=Shift+Control) ]
};
key <RWIN> {
repeat= no,
type= "ONE_LEVEL",
symbols[Group1]= [ Hyper_R ],
actions[group1]=[ SetMods(modifiers=Shift+Control) ]
};
};
Pjz's answer is correct in saying that an xkb solution would be ideal, sadly few have taken that route, most likely due to the difficulty of learning xkb and it seems many have gone the route of using Xmodmap files which is being deprecated while we are on our way to Wayland.
This answer may be several years too late, but here it is any ways.
Kinto is a tool I recently created that will address this problem and does so by using xkb and by listening to what app you are currently using, as it also changes the keymap while using terminals so the mac like experience can be consistent.
https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
https://medium.com/#benreaves/kinto-a-mac-inspired-keyboard-mapping-for-linux-58f731817c0
Here's a Gist as well, if you just want to see what is at the heart of it all, it will not alternate your keymap when needed though. The Gist also does not include custom xkb keymap files that setup macOS style cursors/word-wise manipulations that use Cmd and the arrow keys.
https://gist.github.com/rbreaves/f4cf8a991eaeea893999964f5e83eebb
Edit: Posting the contents of the gist as well. I cannot realistically post the contents of Kinto.
# permanent apple keyboard keyswap
echo "options hid_apple swap_opt_cmd=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf
update-initramfs -u -k all
# Temporary & instant apple keyboard keyswap
echo '1' | sudo tee -a /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/swap_opt_cmd
# Windows and Mac keyboards - GUI (Physical Alt is Ctrl, Physical Super is Alt, Physical Ctrl is Super)
setxkbmap -option;setxkbmap -option altwin:ctrl_alt_win
# Windows and Mac keyboards - Terminal Apps (Physical Alt is Super, Physical Super is Alt, Physical Ctrl is Ctrl)
setxkbmap -option;setxkbmap -option altwin:swap_alt_win
#
# If you want a systemd service and bash script to help toggle between
# GUI and Terminal applications then look at project Kinto.
# https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
#
# Note: The above may not work for Chromebooks running Linux, please look
# at project Kinto for that.
#
# If anyone would like to contribute to the project then please do!
#
You'll get almost all of the way there if you switch Cmd and Ctrl
xmodmap -e "keycode 63 = Control_L"
That way Cmd will be Control. No other keys will be swapped
Edited: I forgot the "-e"