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I knew that sooner or later some nice fellow would have done the xmodmap file... thanks :-) Now I have only to change something for my localised keyboard.
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2008-07-13
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Np... I really prefer the icewm interface but without the keyboard support it was useless.
Anyone that wants to modify their icewm setup.. like putting the bar at the top and many other options.. the file is in /usr/share/icewm/preferences and there is also /usr/share/icewm/menu for modifying your menu system. You can either edit these directly as root for global changes or copy them to /home/user/.icewm for user specific changes.
If anyone has anything they want to know how to do in their icewm debian post here and i'll try and figure it out. So far I got xchat and is working fine.. nice thing is since both home directories are same the OS2008 xchat and debians will use the same config.
mplayer is giving me problems.. watching movies is proving to be problematic...
Anyone that wants to modify their icewm setup.. like putting the bar at the top and many other options.. the file is in /usr/share/icewm/preferences and there is also /usr/share/icewm/menu for modifying your menu system. You can either edit these directly as root for global changes or copy them to /home/user/.icewm for user specific changes.
If anyone has anything they want to know how to do in their icewm debian post here and i'll try and figure it out. So far I got xchat and is working fine.. nice thing is since both home directories are same the OS2008 xchat and debians will use the same config.
mplayer is giving me problems.. watching movies is proving to be problematic...
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2008-07-14
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Modified original post to use /home/user/.icewm/startup instead of /home/user/.profile because the profile was being used by OS2008 terminal as well giving errors. Startup seems more consistent with icewm as well.
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2008-07-14
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Modified the xmodmap file.. the Enter/Return key was not giving a normal Enter to VI.. causing it to freak out and not create newlines right.. fixed that.
Added the ability to use FN+BackSpace to get a tab effect... who doesn't use Tab when navigating in a terminal?
Added the ability to use FN+BackSpace to get a tab effect... who doesn't use Tab when navigating in a terminal?
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2008-07-14
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Thanks so much! I have an N800, but it was stressing me out that people couldn't use their N810 keyboards properly under IceWM.
I'll put this into the next release of Easy Debian.
PS: As far as I know, they only got the USB2VGA thing to produce 2 fps from the tablet...
Last edited by qole; 2008-07-14 at 22:18.
I'll put this into the next release of Easy Debian.
Originally Posted by fatalsaint
What does that mean? You mean Maemo mplayer or are you trying to get Debian mplayer to work? If the latter, why?
mplayer is giving me problems.. watching movies is proving to be problematic...
PS: As far as I know, they only got the USB2VGA thing to produce 2 fps from the tablet...
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2008-07-14
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Originally Posted by qole
I don't plan on duplicating my current screen.. i want chroot debian (like yours) and get completely rebuild an xorg.conf from scratch using something like:
PS: As far as I know, they only got the USB2VGA thing to produce 2 fps from the tablet...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/USB2VGA
and hoping to produce a completely seperate full screen debian working station... we'll see how it goes when I have the money for all the parts.
But eventually my goal is to have a docking station be just 1 USB cord away
. It won't duplicate the current screen.. although I guess if you do the vnc hack thing it might... but It'll be interesting how/if it works at all.
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2008-07-14
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint
I don't think that will work, but good luck to you... Here's what they've got so far.
I don't plan on duplicating my current screen.. i want chroot debian (like yours) and get completely rebuild an xorg.conf from scratch using something like:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/USB2VGA
and hoping to produce a completely separate full screen debian working station... we'll see how it goes when I have the money for all the parts.
But essentially my goal is to have a docking station be just 1 USB cord away
I have managed to get X-Forwarding working well from Debian SSH, so I can run apps on my tablet but display them on another computer, including a Windows computer running Cygwin and an X server. That's pretty cool.
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2008-07-14
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Originally Posted by qole
Because I want everything to run in debian.. I hate switching when I am in IceWM. My ultimate goal is probably to boot to Debian instead of using Debian in a chroot.. although I haven't quite decided 100%.
What does that mean? You mean Maemo mplayer or are you trying to get Debian mplayer to work? If the latter, why?
Right now the chroot is wonderful because it makes Wireless/BT pairing easy; as well as BT transfer of files, etc.. Eventually I am going to offload these tasks onto Debian as well using the debian bluetooth stuff and find a decent WPA-GUI for wireless connections.
At the moment I can't see a single reason why I would want to keep Maemo.. it provides me easy access to the internet until I get the debian configured the way I want.. but other than that.. I just stay in my IceWM window.. I moved Xchat and Pidgin into Debian instead of running the Maemo copies.. so that they are right in front of me while I work instead of sitting back on the maemo desktop and interrupt me with the little blink.
I got mplayer to show the video - and using the -ao esd even got sound! - but it complains about slow running and is extremely chopping. Passing -vo sdl worked wonders for the interface as well.. but again; slow and choppy - I am not sure if this is due to debian's access to the devices.. or due to the fact that the memory is already being used by 2 os's running window managers and Xchat/Pidgin to boot.
I am not sure if this does anything.. but I have noticed you can pass the options -extension Composite to the Xephyr line - do you know if this will provide any usefulness to IceWM?
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Last edited by fatalsaint; 2008-07-14 at 22:31. Reason: My Spelling is horrific today..
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2008-07-16
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Not sure what happened.. but something I installed last night (most likely a dependency of one of these window managers: openbox, XFCE4, Window Maker) screwed with the files in the /usr/share/X11/xkb directory.
No idea what changed.. but it was quite entertaining.. when executing my xmodmap .Xmodmap like normal .. it caused the keyboard to be completely backwards.. when pressing the buttons WITHOUT the function key, you got the function key's item, (IE: hit q, get a 1).. but when pressing the function key and the letter - you got the letter.. (FN+q = q)..
Totally reversed on me. I messed with my xmodmap and nothing worked.. so - IF this happens to you.. running the following from OS2008
will get your keyboard working again with my file. I do not know exactly what it changed.. and if I get bored I'll try and find out the exact file - but for now; I have noticed no other problems in using OS2008's xkb directory in debian.. and the keyboard works again.
No idea what changed.. but it was quite entertaining.. when executing my xmodmap .Xmodmap like normal .. it caused the keyboard to be completely backwards.. when pressing the buttons WITHOUT the function key, you got the function key's item, (IE: hit q, get a 1).. but when pressing the function key and the letter - you got the letter.. (FN+q = q)..
Totally reversed on me. I messed with my xmodmap and nothing worked.. so - IF this happens to you.. running the following from OS2008
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sudo gainroot mv /debian/usr/share/X11/xkb /debian/usr/share/X11/xkb.bak cp -R /usr/share/X11/xkb /debian/usr/share/X11/
my first post and I wanted it useful. One of the biggest problems I had with debian was the hardware keyboard for the N810.. none of the numbers or special characters would work for me..considering i spend a lot of time in the terminal this was unsat. I couldn't find anyone that had a complete xmodmap for all the keys on the keyboard.. if there is and I just failed to see it let me know.
I saved this file as .Xmodmap in my users home directory:
Updated with Multiple Keyboards.. Big Thanks to Debernardis and Murphy
For US/English Keyboard:
Escape = FN + ,
TAB = FN + Backspace
Italian Keyboards:
Pipe = FN + .
For French/Azerty Keyboards:
Tab = FN + <
Then create/add the following to /home/user/.icewm/startup:
EDIT: To keep the original topic up to date.. if you experience weird behavior with your keyboard; reversed Function-Key operation or just not getting anything at all when using the function key (even after running the xmodmap command).. this code may help (run from OS2008, and if your debian is mount on /debian)..
Last edited by fatalsaint; 2008-09-14 at 18:47.