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Something interesting - after the last update to the Bluetooth HID Scripts, the device shut down (annoying interrupting the fMMS update that was trying to start).

Just a little bit ago I ran the setxkbmap command again to see what happened - and it worked. So I went in, edited the rx-51 file, and magic - it works for me too now.

So I am not completely sure and have too little information to know for sure what was causing my error.

That said, I'm having a specific bug. When mapping the "Tab" key to Spacebar+Shift, it doesn't work (rather, something is happening because instead of normally making a space when shifted, the spacebar does nothing. It seems to, however, act as Esc in vi and MicroB. When I mapped Tab to Up-Arrow+Fn, it works just fine.

Anyone encounter anything like this before? (Searching for the intuitive key terms in the power search brings up nothing about Shift+space specifically being glitchy. And I read most of the threads on remapping keyboards earlier and I don't exactly remember this being brought up, though I do think someone said that some shift+[other-key] combinations were glitchy.)

- EDIT -

Found something on this: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35089&page=6

Shift key being pressed apparently makes terminal interpret it as Shift+tab... instead of merely shift+space=tab. Hmmm... Wonder if this is why it doesn't work in the browser as well... Similar happens with the default mapping that makes Backspace mapped as Backspace,Delete,Backspace,Delete. Unless you first caps-lock or FN-lock and hold the other key, the key either does nothing or deletes.

I also found that in MicroB, Shift+space mapped to tab will, at least on the page I'm testing, work as a half-functioning shift+tab on a normal browser. It will go to the above/previous element you can enter stuff into, but it won't loop back around, so when it reaches the top/beginning of a page, it does nothing. Similarly, in terminal, shift, THEN space will still just do a space though it's mapped to tab. However, in MicroB shift THEN space IS normal Tab.

I believe I'm gonna edit this into the wiki when I get the chance in the next few days if no one beats me to it. It's knowledge that's apparently been around for a little while, but no one bothered to put it on the wiki, so only those who stumbled upon that thread found it.

Last edited by Mentalist Traceur; 2010-09-02 at 05:49. Reason: Reading+experimenting lead to more knowledge.