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Cannot input the >, <, | characters on the German keyboard #4

Open Pearl-852 opened 3 years ago

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

My keyboard layout settings are Keyboard

But the key labeled for >, <, | characters does not seem to function, all other german special characters (i.e. umlauts or ß) works. When the layout is set to US keyboard, the same key works as 'CTRL', so the key is ok.

So, is my keyboard settings shown above correct? If not, please advise the proper settings.

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

This issue has been opened since Nov.10 and there hasn't been any official comment on here. If you check the Comments section on Kickstarter, there are numerous reports with this same issue since.

Please acknowledge.

Jay-Kopf commented 3 years ago

Please fix this. It's a development device and with these characters it is problematic to write code or work with linux bash!

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

FYI, as a temporary measure for those 3 missing characters, I enter them as Unicode character number as follows

< : Press Shift+Strg+U, release, then type 3c (ascii 60) and press Enter > : Press Shift+Strg+U, release, then type 3e (ascii 62) and press Enter | : Press Shift+Strg+U, release, then type 7c (ascii 124) and press Enter

And, I am also investigating/studying a way to use xmodmap to remap that Control_R (labeled on the US keyboard) key.

X-Perry-Mental commented 3 years ago

I don't know if it is still relevant to you, but for me, the German keyboard is working flawlessly. My CrowPi2 just arrived today, and all I did was setting up the device using the terminal:

sudo raspi-config

Within the localisation options (5) I have set: L1 to "de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8" L2 to "Europe" / "Berlin" L3 to "Generic 105-key PC (intl.)" / "German" / AltGr to default / no compose key / Ctrl+Alt+Backspace: no

I can see from your screenshot that you did use the graphic tool and not the terminal, maybe that’s making a difference. Apart from the settings above I updated the system using apt, but that’s all I did so far.

Best regards, Perry

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

@X-Perry-Mental Thanks for your feedback and glad to hear your German keyboard is working flawlessly. I have just edited my keyboard settings following your instructions using sudo raspi-config, and confirmed as shown below

$ cat /etc/default/locale

#  File generated by update-locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"

Unfortunately, my result remain the same, not able to type those 3 missing characters. Since you have just received your CrowPi2, I have a hunch that Elecrow may have revised the keyboard firmware to fix this issue. Because I believe this is/was a keyboard firmware issue.

I would appreciate if you can do the follow test

  1. Run cat /etc/default/keyboard and post your result.
  2. Run sudo showkey -a and test those 3 characters < > | and post the result.

Thank you very much.

X-Perry-Mental commented 3 years ago

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/default/keyboard

KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="de" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo showkey -a < 60 0074 0x3c

62 0076 0x3e | 124 0174 0x7c

Best, Perry

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

@X-Perry-Mental Thank you so much for testing.

If you don't mind, I would like to confirm whether or not your keymap (de) file has been customized by Elecrow. Please follow the steps below to attach that keymap file to your new reply post

  1. Open a new Terminal.
  2. Type cp /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de ~/de.txt
  3. Open your File Manager, then drag & drop the copied file de.txt onto a new post here.
  4. You may delete that copied file, de.txt

Thanks,

X-Perry-Mental commented 3 years ago

Here we go, hope it helps! Best, Perry de.txt

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

@X-Perry-Mental Thanks for posting the file. The file contents are identical, so there is no customization there.

Conclusion: IMHO. The German keyboard controller firmware must have been updated to correct this issue.

atantnita commented 3 years ago

Hey, I think, there is a firmware-error, see below for "|". My workarounds are: In X11 open terminal and enter

xmodmap -e "keycode 105 = less greater" and then < (normal) and > (with shift) work. Unfortunately this doesn't work with |, and so I substitute for the EURO-symbol alt key e xmodmap -e "keycode 26 = e E e E bar" You can put both commands into Your .bashrc, and then the keys (< as key, > as shift <, and | as altgr-e) are available.

If You want to use these keys in console-mode (alt-F1 .. alt-F6) then use

loadkeys myckeys where myckeys is a file containing following three lines (with space before 2nd and 3rd) keycode 97 = 0x003c shift keycode 97 = 0x003e altgr keycode 97 = 0x007c

Then You can use the three symbols in console mode

Best regards

manfred

Pearl-852 commented 3 years ago

Manfred, Great job! Thanks for your sharing.

davidrichardzh commented 1 year ago

SOLVED: ACTUALLY THERE IS A KEYBOARD (GERMAN NO DEAD KEYS), THE PROCEDURE IS:

OPEN Terminal and type: $ sudo raspi-config [enter] Then pick the following

  1. Localisation Option [enter] Keyboard [enter] Generic 105-keyPC (intl.) [enter] German – German (no dead keys) [enter] The default for the keyboard layout [enter] No compose key [enter]

CHECK THAT YOU SEE 1. THE FOLLOWING $ cat /etc/default/locale [enter]

LANG=C.UTF-8

LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8

LANGUAGE=en_US:en

LANGUAGE=en_US:en

and CHECK THAT YOU SEE 2. THE FOLLOWING too: $ cat /etc/default/keyboard [enter] XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="de" XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" BACKSPACE="guess"

Works on my CrowPI2 purchased on Oct 20, 2022