On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:57:17AM +0000, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:21:26AM +0100, Mike Fischer wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I???m trying to use a German Apple Mac keyboard with OpenBSD 7.2 and I???d
> > like to match the mapping to that of macOS.
> >
> > `wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=de` helps, but several mappings are
> > different/missing. For example the pipe character | should be alt-7 but
> > isn???t. Mostly the alt-combinations are missing or wrong.
> >
> > So I thought I could use keyboard.map settings to correct this. But I
> > can???t find any documentation of the format ??? very unusual for OpenBSD.
> >
> > Did I miss something?
> >
> > Can someone point me to the documentation please?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> hi.
>
> maybe you are looking for wsksymdef.h:
>
> WSCONSCTL(8) System Manager's Manual WSCONSCTL(8)
>
> ...
>
> Modify the current keyboard encoding so that, when the Caps
> Lock key is pressed, the same encoding sequence as Left
> Control is sent. For a full list of keysyms, and keycodes,
> refer to the /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h file.
>
> # wsconsctl keyboard.map+="keysym Caps_Lock =
> Control_L"
>
> jmc
>
Hey,
If it helps, here's my wsconsctl.conf to add some Romanian keyboard
bindings in the console for keys which are behind AltGr. Note, I've
intentionally made some Romanian specific unicode characters output
a literal `?' since they're not very usable in wscons.
You can either use symbolic names (from wsksymdef.h) or use stuff like
`unknown_51355' to give it a U+code point in decimal form. For German,
you probably have everything you need in wsksymdef.h. Note, the format
is also very similar to xkb; originally I thought they were the same
(they aren't 100% the same).
keyboard.encoding=us
keyboard.map+="keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L"
mouse.tp.tapping=3
mouse.reverse_scrolling=1
keyboard.map+="keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L"
keyboard.map+="keycode 184 = Cmd2 Mode_switch Multi_key"
# use ? for unicode that causes mojibake
keyboard.map+="keycode 26 = question question bracketleft braceleft"
keyboard.map+="keycode 27 = question question bracketright braceright"
keyboard.map+="keycode 39 = question question semicolon colon"
keyboard.map+="keycode 40 = question question apostrophe quotedbl"
keyboard.map+="keycode 41 = question question grave asciitilde" # 3byte
UTF-8, don't bother
keyboard.map+="keycode 43 = question question backslash bar"
keyboard.map+="keycode 51 = comma semicolon less question"
keyboard.map+="keycode 52 = period colon greater question"
A more proper example for e.g. keycode 26:
keyboard.map+="keycode 26 = abreve Abreve bracketleft braceleft"
Or for keys that don't have a symbolic name:
keyboard.map+="keycode 43 = unknown_50082 unknown_50050 backslash bar"
I started from US which is 90% there, and the first thing is to add
right Alt as `Mode_switch', otherwise it's just (left) Alt (which I
think just sets the MSB, IDK; you want AltGr/Mode_switch if you want to
map specific characters).
Which keycode is what? I don't know. I dumped the hu layout as a
reference with `doas wsconsctl keyboard.map > hu.map' and looked at what
was done for that crazy layout, and started from there.
Cheers,
Vlad
