Ticket #1609 (closed defect: community)
Default multitap keyboard missing essential linux keys needed for terminal
| Reported by: | kenrestivo | Owned by: | openmoko-devel |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | unknown | Version: | 2007.2 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Blocked By: | ||
| Blocking: | Estimated Completion (week): | ||
| HasPatchForReview: | no | PatchReviewResult: | |
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Description
The default /etc/multitap-pad/im-multipress.conf renders the terminal useless because it lacks any way to enter the "/", "|", Control, ESC, and Alt keys.
It's easy to add them by editing the conf file from a USB-connected PC, but it's becoming an FAQ that could be avoided by including those keys.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by tick
- Owner changed from tick to openmoko-devel
- Version set to 2007.2
- Component changed from Assassin to unknown
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by kenrestivo
There are two issues here actually:
1) The keyboard that ships with the standard FSO image needs to have its standard numeric /etc/multitap-pad/im-multipress.conf adjusted to add the "/", "|", Ctrl, and ESC keys added.
2) The keyboard in ASU is even less useful. It doesn't even have numbers! And there's no way to backspace if you make a mistake.
If this should be two separate bug reports (one easy fix against FSO, one probably much harder problem in ASU) then I'd be glad to do that.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by raster
asu keyboard (btw - not my design - taken from qtopia's predictive keyboard).
- slide finger RIGHT for space/next word
- slide ginger DOWN for enter/return (and next word)
- slide finger LEFT for backspace
- slide finger UP to change keyboard layout and get.. numbers, symbols etc. etc. :)
- key layout is a text config file. you can make your own!
so i'd ignore the asu keyboard feedback here. it's just bad usability - it does actually work!
It looks like a issues of Freerunner?
The keyboard in ASU will have no this issue.