Keyboard issues

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jelockwood

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F8 does not work in beta2. This is actually listed as a known issue but the suggested workaround is to use Fn F8 (Function and F8). Unfortunately this will not work on a desktop Mac (such as the iMac or Mac mini) as the desktop Apple keyboard does not have a Fn (Function) key (the MacBook Pro does).

The following keys do not map correctly between a Mac and the client Windows XP.

Typed on Mac Result in Windows
@ "
" @
~ ¬ (equivalent of Option L on a Mac)

Note: this is with a UK keyboard plugged in to the Mac and UK keyboard layout defined in Windows.

While the @ and " are swapped and are an error, and both Virtual PC and Timbuktu can make the same error, the above list is somewhat impressive for its shortness. Timbuktu (by Netopia) has a much longer list of incorrect mappings (between a Mac and PC when controlling the opposite operating system), this is despite my having reported this to Netopia several times going all the way back to 2000 [Grrrrr!!! :mad: ]

Also as mentioned elsewhere, keyboard repeating does not work either.
 
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I have a swedish MBP and normally use the US kb layout (you just have to avoid looking at the keys.) I can't get a vertical bar (or backslash) regardless how I try. With the US keyboard layout I get []; in the right places but the \ key produce < instead. If I switch to the swedish keyboard layout I get åäö and so on, but the ' key still produce < and option-7 doesn't work. I run a Fedora client now, but had the same problem when I first tried ubuntu. (Couldn't get Fedora 5 to work until I tried with 256M ram instead of more.)
 
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tolaini said:
Beta3, still "\" not working on italian keyboard, and "<" gives "\".
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Lucky you. I still get <> when I expect \|. I have a Swedish MBP, US keyboard layout in MacOSX and US keyboard layout in Fedora Core Linux. Changing the MacOS kb layout doesn't seem to change the behavor in Fedora. If I switch to the swedish kb in Fedora I get swedish characters on most keys, but still <> on the '* key (same key that produce \| on us kb).
 
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Just reporting "\" "|" key (one is shifted other) on MBP just don't seem to work for me.
I've check the forums but no one else seems to have the same problem. I'm using
the standard US Keyboard (tried Canadian as well).
 
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On Beta I think the key repeat may be too aggressive. I sometimes hear a double click when I just press the key once. I also mentioned this before but the program should take over all function keys while it owns input. I'm thinking of keys F9-F12 which come preassigned by apple.
 
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csimfu said:
same issues for me on my MBP with \ and |.

A workaround...

xmodmap -e "keycode 94 = backslash bar"
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To fix the console, use loadkeys. For RHEL (and probably Fedora):

cd /etc/sysconfig/console
dumpkeys > default.kmap
echo "keycode 86 = backslash bar" >> default.kmap
loadkeys default.kmap

That should persist across reboots. Note that this only fixes the console. You still need to use xmodmap to fix things up under X.

Also, I'm not sure the reason for the differing keycode. To find out what the keycode is for your system, run "showkey" then press the backslash/bar key on your keyboard. showkey will say something like:

keycode 86 press
keycode 86 release

Press and release the key a few times just to make sure. It's that keycode that you want to use in the echo line. You'll have to wait 10 seconds w/o typing anything for showkey to exit.

j.
 
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