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Feathers McGraw 2016-05-12 20:03

USB OTG keyboard layouts for Sailfish
 
Does anyone know how to change keyboard layouts for USB keyboards connected using OTG (on devices that support it)?

I have a Thinkpad USB keyboard that works really well with my Fairphone 2, but many of the special characters are mapped to the wrong keys.

As a side note, I was pleasantly surprised that the on-screen keyboard disappears when a USB keybaord is connected.

coderus 2016-05-13 04:19

Re: USB OTG keyboard layouts for Sailfish
 
boston.qmap?

Feathers McGraw 2016-05-13 07:26

Re: USB OTG keyboard layouts for Sailfish
 
Thanks for the hint :)

Is that supposed to be in /usr/share/qt5/keymaps/ ? I only have droid.qmap.

The only info i can find about boston.qmap is to do with TOHKBD, am i right in thinking that the on screen keyboard is handled completely separately (maliit) to physical keyboards, and I'll be able to change physical keyboard settings without messing up maliit?

rainisto 2016-05-13 21:03

Re: USB OTG keyboard layouts for Sailfish
 
If I remember correctly changing physical keyboard settings requires rebooting the device (and/or restarting Qt) ie. there is no way to change it on the fly.

Feathers McGraw 2016-05-14 13:13

Re: USB OTG keyboard layouts for Sailfish
 
That's fine by me, sounds like something I'll only have to do once since I'll only be using one physical keyboard.

What exactly do I need to change though? Do I need to create boston.qmap, or edit droid.qmap, or something else?


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