Re: udev: Please add keymap for HP Chromebook 14 (Falco)

Re: udev: Please add keymap for HP Chromebook 14 (Falco)

[Martin Pitt]

Hey Stefan,

Stefan Nagy [2014-01-25  2:24 +0100]:
> as most (all?) Chromebooks the HP Chromebook 14 has no standard
> function keys. Almost all top row keys are multimedia keys: in the
> leftmost position there's the ESC-key, in the rightmost position
> there's a power-button (-key) – in between those two keys there are
> 10 multimedia keys. For now all these multimedia keys act as
> standard function keys (F1–F10). Aside from that, instead of the
> caps lock key there's also a multimedia key.

Thanks for your keymap! I translated it to the current hwdb format
that systemd uses these days, and committed:

  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id‚cd413782

> Two entries in the key mapping are commented out:
> 
> 1. 0x3D refresh (?)
> -> In this case I'm not sure this is the correct KEY_XXXXX constant
> since it won't work as expected in Iceweasel (I'm running Debian
> Jessie), though in nautilus it works as expected…

I commented that back in. On all screenshots of the keyboard that I
found it does look like a "refresh/reload" key (circular arrow), and
that seems to be the best match. Of course it's entirely possible that
some applications don't support that key, but hopefully some do.

> 2. 0x3E fullscreen (?)
> -> In this case I couldn't find a KEY_XXXXX constant which provides
> the desired functionality. I hope someone can help me out here.

Indeed there is no such key symbol, so I left it commented out.

> AFAIK the intended purpose of the key in ChromeOS is to refresh
> websites in the Chrome browser.

I guess that applied to the "refresh" key, no the fullscreen key?

Thanks,

Martin
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Re: udev: Please add keymap for HP Chromebook 14 (Falco)

[Stefan Nagy]

Hi Martin,

Am Montag, den 27.01.2014, 09:08 +0100 schrieb Martin Pitt:

> Thanks for your keymap! I translated it to the current hwdb format
> that systemd uses these days, and committed:
> 
>   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id‚cd413782

Great, thanks!

> > Two entries in the key mapping are commented out:
> > 
> > 1. 0x3D refresh (?)
> > -> In this case I'm not sure this is the correct KEY_XXXXX constant
> > since it won't work as expected in Iceweasel (I'm running Debian
> > Jessie), though in nautilus it works as expected…
> 
> I commented that back in. On all screenshots of the keyboard that I
> found it does look like a "refresh/reload" key (circular arrow), and
> that seems to be the best match. Of course it's entirely possible that
> some applications don't support that key, but hopefully some do.

OK, maybe I'll file a bug against firefox/iceweasel.

> > 2. 0x3E fullscreen (?)
> > -> In this case I couldn't find a KEY_XXXXX constant which provides
> > the desired functionality. I hope someone can help me out here.
> 
> Indeed there is no such key symbol, so I left it commented out.

Is there any chance this key will work as expected in the future?

> > AFAIK the intended purpose of the key in ChromeOS is to refresh
> > websites in the Chrome browser.
> 
> I guess that applied to the "refresh" key, no the fullscreen key?

Yes, sorry…

Thanks,
Stefan.

Re: udev: Please add keymap for HP Chromebook 14 (Falco)

[Martin Pitt]

Stefan Nagy [2014-01-27 19:20 +0100]:
> > > 2. 0x3E fullscreen (?)
> > > -> In this case I couldn't find a KEY_XXXXX constant which provides
> > > the desired functionality. I hope someone can help me out here.
> > 
> > Indeed there is no such key symbol, so I left it commented out.
> 
> Is there any chance this key will work as expected in the future?

Linux/evdev would need to define a new key symbol for that. Might be
worth filing a bug report about that?

Thanks,

Martin

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