[OLPC-devel] Escape keys and keyboards.....

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Oops, so I'm backwards....  Jon is right...

I hadn't looked at your escape sequence and tried the correct one.
Since Jon seems to have no problems with the correct sequence, there
has to be a difference between our systems which makes the hand-
generated escape fail. Two possible candidates:
* keyboard layout (german layout without deadkeys)
* locale (de_DE.UTF-8)

Since the laptops will go to countries where english is not the
primary language, we'll have to test it with their keyboard layouts
and their locale settings. If it only works with US keyboard layout,
this is a non-starter.

I do hope we can get rid of a few keys, current crowded keyboards
indeed won't fit into the space we have. How many modifier keys
are on the keyboard and can we use them to make Escape available?
How many keys on the laptop keyboard can be pressed simultaneously?
And are there other restrictions like only one key per line? How
are we going to generate the Linux SysRq key combinations?


Regards,
Carl-Daniel