Re: Trying to make 9front work on QWERTZ

"Jens K. Loewe" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.plan9.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I tried using kbmap (which is not that easy without < and > on the keyboard), but the key still has no function for me. Weird, honestly. :-/

Thank you for the information that a 9front mailing list exists. I may want to look for that, although I guess that most of them are here as well.

> Am 25.07.2019 um 09:17 schrieb Rodrigo G. López <[email protected]>:
> 
> i have a qwertz but i use it with the us layout (any other layout sucks for programming). i think you can change the layout with kbmap(1), and set it to de or whatever, although i don't have a 9 machine with me right now so can't tell for sure.
> 
> if the default map doesn't work, read it, ask on #cat-v@freenode and write a new, fixed kbmap you can fling into kbdfs(8).
> 
> you should also ask this in the 9front ml.
> 
> 
> good luck.
> 
> -rodri
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 11:06 PM Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can't give a definitive answer, but it works fine on my Norwegian keyboard which also has a rather different layout from the US keyboard. Unless the key code is simply not handled, I can't imagine why you get nothing at all.
>> 
>> ons. 24. jul. 2019, 21.03 skrev Jens K. Loewe <[email protected]>:
>>> Ahoy,
>>> 
>>> I've been trying to give 9front a test ride for a while now, and I'm
>>> stuck with one specific problem.
>>> 
>>> So I have a German keyboard layout where <, > and | are on the same
>>> key. However, while I have no problems with these keys, in 9front the
>>> key seems to be dead on all of my keyboards. I tried quite a lot of
>>> them, both inside QEMU on two different computers and on a dedicated
>>> ThinkPad. Also, using the de layout does not fix that.
>>> 
>>> Is that a known problem or a configuration error?
>>>
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