XPhoton and localized keyboards

Is there anything new regarding the keyboard problem
of the XPhoton?

There was a “We are working on it”-Statement from
QSSL two years ago … (MessageID: <8uuugm$av7$1@nntp.qnx.com>)


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Karsten.Hoffmann@mbs-software.de wrote:

Is there anything new regarding the keyboard problem
of the XPhoton?

There were some discussions on the openqnx mailing list.

Karsten.Hoffmann@mbs-software.de wrote:

Is there anything new regarding the keyboard problem
of the XPhoton?

What problem are you having?
What does your keymap file look like?
(I’ll assume you start “XPhoton -keymap somefile”)

There was a “We are working on it”-Statement from
QSSL two years ago … (MessageID: <8uuugm$av7$> 1@nntp.qnx.com> >)

Now that we’ve opened the source, we’re no longer working on it,
but I believe your problem was addressed.

Garry Turcotte <garry@qnx.com> wrote:

Karsten.Hoffmann@mbs-software.de > wrote:
Is there anything new regarding the keyboard problem
of the XPhoton?

What problem are you having?

Most keys ar allright, but the shifted numbers (’!’,’"’,’%’, etc)
and all diacritical characters are wrong!

What does your keymap file look like?
(I’ll assume you start “XPhoton -keymap somefile”)

I only start /usr/bin/ph … what would be a good idea of ‘somefile’?

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Karsten.Hoffmann@mbs-software.de wrote:

Garry Turcotte <> garry@qnx.com> > wrote:

Karsten.Hoffmann@mbs-software.de > wrote:

Is there anything new regarding the keyboard problem
of the XPhoton?

What problem are you having?


Most keys ar allright, but the shifted numbers (’!’,’"’,’%’, etc)
and all diacritical characters are wrong!


What does your keymap file look like?
(I’ll assume you start “XPhoton -keymap somefile”)


I only start /usr/bin/ph … what would be a good idea of ‘somefile’?

I’ve attached the sample.keys file from the source archive. It just
needs a unique byte for each physical key mapped from Photon key_caps.
(can be whatever value you like, but you may need to xmodmap the diffs)

If you’re feeling energetic :slight_smile: and you don’t care about keyboard input
from phditto/phindows, you could change the source to actually use the
scan code from the input events. phditto/phindows input events don’t
have scan codes and X servers only pass a single byte of ‘detail’ around
internally for keyboard events…