Comments on: Pain in multimedia keyboard land http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/01/23/pain-in-multimedia-keyboard-land/ GStreamer and Collabora news and more Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Victor Bogado http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/01/23/pain-in-multimedia-keyboard-land/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Victor Bogado Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/01/23/pain-in-multimedia-keyboard-land/#comment-199 There is yet another problem with changing models. using the keyboard switch applett you can change the keyboard model and add one or more layouts. The problem comes it you have more then one keyboard.<p/>Let me explain, my laptop have a usual laptop keyboard (no numeric keyboard, and awkward key positioning). When I use it at home I have a secondary keyboard that I hook into the USB port. The problem is that this keyboard is a ABNT2, mutimedia keyboard.<p/>Not only this keyboard is probably unlisted in the model dialog, but also in the default configuration for ubuntu the ABNT2 and the laptop models are incompatible. And I have to choose one. If I use the ABNT2 for the us layout it does not work and if I use the PC-104 with the br layout it also do not work. <p/>I solved the problem by changing the model files in the xkb directory. I sent a patch to the ubuntu bugzilla at the time. But this is not a good solution. <p/>So the question is how to handle a new keyboard? Should we have a second configuration for it's layout? There is yet another problem with changing models. using the keyboard switch applett you can change the keyboard model and add one or more layouts. The problem comes it you have more then one keyboard.

Let me explain, my laptop have a usual laptop keyboard (no numeric keyboard, and awkward key positioning). When I use it at home I have a secondary keyboard that I hook into the USB port. The problem is that this keyboard is a ABNT2, mutimedia keyboard.

Not only this keyboard is probably unlisted in the model dialog, but also in the default configuration for ubuntu the ABNT2 and the laptop models are incompatible. And I have to choose one. If I use the ABNT2 for the us layout it does not work and if I use the PC-104 with the br layout it also do not work.

I solved the problem by changing the model files in the xkb directory. I sent a patch to the ubuntu bugzilla at the time. But this is not a good solution.

So the question is how to handle a new keyboard? Should we have a second configuration for it’s layout?

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