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Keyboard configuration UI
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`åäöøñňáàíčřšçžťþďæłāõôœ` #215

Closed leukimi closed 9 months ago

leukimi commented 9 months ago

How is your customer with system76 Launch totally customizable and fully reprogrammable open source mechanical keyboard supposed to write/type a special character åäöøñňáàíčřšçžťþďæłāõôœ on a latest version Linux Mint operating system?

DEB and RPM packages called system76-keyboard-configurator seems to exist for:

See for instance software.opensuse.org

See AUR repository for Archlinux and Manjaro.

See Fedora repositories.

See pkgs.org.

jackpot51 commented 9 months ago

These special characters do not come from the keyboard's scancode mapping but from the operating system's layout. Different layouts will have these in different locations, I recommend you do research on keyboard layouts that your operating system provides.

jackpot51 commented 9 months ago

For more clarity: at the keyboard level, you can map the A scancode to any key, but whether it outputs a, A, å, ä, á, or à is up entirely to the operating system and there is nothing the keyboard can do to control it.