Thread: Atari800 v2.2.1 port and xkbd
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shawnjefferson is offline shawnjefferson
2012-01-16 , 19:01
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Originally Posted by Addison View Post
FIrst off, better version of Xkbd.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=408688&postcount=1

The delay between the keys being repeated by accident is much better in this one.
Thanks, I'll try that one out. There is an issue with repeating keypresses with the version I have, but if you press fast it isn't so bad...

This could be done using Xbindkeys and XTE on an N810.
Frankly most of that was over my head!

I'm still having some trouble with the emulator recognizing certain keypresses (Insert, Delete, Home, End)The problem seems to be with the way the emulator is checking the keyboard, or an interaction with that and xkbd. Testing xkbd with xev shows the keys being pressed.

But for the majority of the others I have assigned them to F-keys, so almost all the functionality of the Atari keyboard is available now. If you know the Atari computer, here is what I'm missing still:

Ctrl/Shift-Insert
Ctrl/Shift-Clear
Tab

and the only hardware buttons assigned:

volume down: Start
volume up: Select
Menu button: Atari800 emulator menu
ESC button: ESC

plays much nicer with Telescope.

If you're making your own buttons, here's a great site if you would like to visually make them more appealing on the screen.
http://cooltext.com/Ghost-Button
Thanks for that. What I want to do in the future is create keyboards with graphics of the actual keys from the Atari keyboard, at least for the stuff I'm using xkbd for.