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#1 2013-09-13 17:03:39

Kalrish
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Registered: 2013-02-27
Posts: 62

xkb configuration for tildes

Hello!
I tried kmscon, and it's fantastic! However, I'm having a problem I'm not sure how to solve.

My keyboard has the Spanish layout. Setting it via --xkb-layout es works, but still does not let me to write tildes (i.e., "á", "ê", etc.). As that functionality is available in X, I tried to write some of the problematic characters on an example file and then read it from the terminal. I was able to see the characters correctly, so I suppose it's not a problem of the font being used by kmscon, but rather with the input system it uses (i.e. libxkbcommon). I've searched on the web and on the feature requests / bug page on kmscon's github, but I haven't found anything.

Has anyone faced this problem successfully? If someone is using kmscon and has ever wrote an "special character", I'd appreciate his/her feedback.

Best regards,
Kalrish

P.S.: backticks, as in shell code, are also not available. That's not a problem, since we have $( ), but, well, I'm interested too!

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#2 2013-09-15 01:32:24

cfr
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Registered: 2011-11-27
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Re: xkb configuration for tildes

I guess it should work according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMSCON.

Can you type the characters normally in a regular VT i.e. when not using kmscon?


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#3 2013-09-16 12:18:58

Kalrish
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Registered: 2013-02-27
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Re: xkb configuration for tildes

cfr wrote:

Can you type the characters normally in a regular VT i.e. when not using kmscon?

Yes, I can/could.

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#4 2024-02-13 12:49:42

fueradeservicio
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Registered: 2024-02-13
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Re: xkb configuration for tildes

Hi,

I'm facing the same issue. I'm also trying to configurer the "es" keymap, but even some leters are the same, some special characters like "-" are not mapped correctly (in this case, it shows an "/".

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#5 2024-02-13 12:58:27

2ManyDogs
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Registered: 2012-01-15
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Re: xkb configuration for tildes

This thread is ten years old. Please do not necrobump.

Instead, start a new topic (which you can marked solved when you find a solution) and link back to this one if you think it still applies.

Closing.

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