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My native keyboard layout is "dk" (Danish).
I am running Tiny Core Linux in a virtual machine (Bochs). The virtual machine is booting the bootloader where I have the possibility of giving the keyboard map as a argument to the kernel. An example is "kmap=qwerty/dk". If I change the keyboard layout to "us" on the host, I can input the "=" in Bochs' X11 GUI. But then I can't input the "/". If I change keyboard layout after inputting anything, Bochs won't let me input more.
I have to keep using the X11 GUI because using i.e. the SDL GUI, CPU utilization is always 100%.
After booting TCL with the default keymap (as I can't change it in the bootloader), I can change keymap with "loadkmap". It reads from STDIN. The keymap is located in /usr/share/kmaps/qwerty/dk. I figured out I can go to the directory using "cd .." without having to use the key "/". But how do I load it into "loadkmap" without using "|" or "<"?
Janus Troelsen
Posted 2012-07-27T19:01:41.217
Reputation: 1 958
How about figuring out where those keys are in the other layout? – DevSolar – 2012-07-27T19:05:15.730
if you mean dk by other layout, that doesnt work because the linux kernel running inside thinks im using a us layout. if you mean us by other layout, that doesnt work because then im stuck with us layout outside the vm too because bochs crashes if i change it while running – Janus Troelsen – 2012-07-27T19:10:11.077
How about a script someplace: Can you make modifications to the filesystem to write a script to do what you want? Possibly on bootup? – Rich Homolka – 2012-07-27T19:10:21.987
What happens if you press
/on the US layout (right next to.)? I don't know Bochs, but wouldn't copy & paste work? – Dennis – 2012-07-27T19:11:36.580@RichHomolka: good idea, Ill try that if theres no other way to do this. this would mean id have to patch every single tcl image i used... – Janus Troelsen – 2012-07-27T19:11:38.220
@Dennis: I don't really think copy-pasting works with Bochs. The VMs input should be keycodes, not text. How would the X server doing the pasting know what keycodes to convert the text to? There's nowhere to paste anyway. – Janus Troelsen – 2012-07-27T19:14:23.990
@Dennis: Strangely enough, with dk as the host layout, that gives me a minus (which is what it would be on a dk layout), even if I didn't change the layout in the VM! Which means Bochs is doing some kind of conversion I guess? I'm glad you asked that question, maybe there's a way to turn this off in Bochs. Then I'd be able to do anything a US layout could do. – Janus Troelsen – 2012-07-27T19:18:48.793
@ysangkok: What happens if you change the host layout to US? Then you should have a fully functional US keyboard, right? – Dennis – 2012-07-27T19:20:21.040
@Dennis: then I'm stuck with the US layout since Bochs dies if I change the keymap while it's running. – Janus Troelsen – 2012-07-27T19:23:35.170
@Dennis: But there's not much sense in changing the keymap at all since Bochs apparently does some kind of translation. For example, the Danish layout's equal sign on Shift-0 doesn't work, even after changing the guest kbd layout to dk and keeping us on the host. I need to find out how to disable the translation. – Janus Troelsen – 2012-07-27T19:35:59.480
You've completely lost me. – DevSolar – 2012-07-28T07:07:43.123
Thanks everyone, I'm thankful for your ideas and suggestions. As noted in my answer, I had a small revelation and worked around the issue. – Janus Troelsen – 2012-07-28T08:16:24.010