Thread: [ANNOUNCE] NOKIA N900 Awesome Hardware Keyboard Layout for Programmers
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2012-12-29 , 01:29
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Since a post was made after mine, I decided to add this as a new post instead of editing previous:

The various key level groupings are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/types/

There's many files in there, and they're all apparently read by xkb when looking for the key map 'type'. So if you want to experiment with a Ctrl+[key] key map type, you can just make your own test file in there... I THINK. There's more to how xkb does that then just those files, but it's been years since I've looked around there in-depth.
Making headway on this issue. Apparently just making a new file doesn't automatically work (not sure why) but modifying the nokia one in types/ did. So I just quickly copied the PC_FN_LEVEL2 button code as "PC_CTRL_LEVEL2", replaced LevelThree with Control, and tried it on the arrows. This HAS blocked the MicroB behavior of Ctrl-left/Ctrl-right being tab/shift-tab.

However, it's worth noting that, so far, this also seems to be blocking the more typical (and possibly desirable) behavior of Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right moving to the beginning/end of a single word, which I guess is a hildon-level thing or something.

EDIT: To clarify, to block that default behavior, you need to map it to something other than that arrow key, but then Ctrl+arrow will not behave like you'd expect (unless you expect it to act like a different key). Furthermore, if you map Ctrl+arrow to Home/End keys, instead of behaving properly, in MicroB it works like PageUp/PageDown keys instead (but worked right in Terminal and Notes). If you leave the value for the Ctrl+arrow mappings blank, then it completely ignores that keypress combination. I'll fiddle some more sometime, but that's what I've gotten so far.
Last edited by Mentalist Traceur; 2012-12-29 at 01:40.