We have a plexgear 94759 mini keyboard, but I have never gotten the layout right. It just works as a US/UK keyboard, despite me having chosen “Swedish qwerty” as layout. This has worked anyhow as most search engines will accept a instead of åä, or o instead of ö, but I would still like to fix it. How do I proceed. I have chosen Swedish in OSMC and location Finland.
Second question: The keyboard has dedicated multimedia buttons for volume/mute/search etc. How do I figure out the kodes to be able to activate those in keymap.xml?
I guess those commands can be entered from an SSH shell as well? Edit: Ah, scratch that. Typed before I read your link But the second command gives a list of scary choices:
Policy for handling keymaps: x
x lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x
x xSelect keymap from arch list x x
x xDon’t touch keymap x x
x xKeep kernel keymap x x
x xSelect keymap from full list x x
x mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj x
tqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqu
x < OK >
Edit : sudo loadkeys de-latin1 gives a German layout, right? sudo loadkeys sv-latin1
does not work (file not found)
Trying: sudo loadkeys se-latin1… works perfectly! Silly me, tried sv- and sw-, but not se-
Now, to the next question. The multimedia keys on the keyboard do not create any keyboard event in the log. I was going to try to get the scancodes by esacping to the commandline on the Vero, but that is unfortunately a nono, because of the resolution problems on Vero, so I plugged that same kb into the PC and found that mute/volup/voldn generate “windows” dodes 173, 174, 175, but no BIOS codes. How do I get OSMC to recognise them?
edit:
Keys without a scancode are not recognized by the kernel; these can include additional keys from “gaming” keyboards, etc.
If you do not get any scancodes at all when pressing would indicate that they are not transmitted as part the default keys and would require a specific driver
Yes. I know and now that I have gotten the layout sorted it might even work. Sadly the kb has no dedicated numeric keypad and the Fn key does not seem to work for the laptop-style pad.
I am still wondering if the keyboard really need a special driver. Maybe check again on the console if the keys really don’t produce scancodes. Use showkey --scancodes
I have a multimedia keyboard where I would say 80% of the special keys still produce a scancode.
But the second command gives a list of scary choices:
Sonce this is not really OSMC related, but rather Linux, I will try other support fora.