loadkeys

loadkeys

Synopsis
loadkeys print the current keyboard interpreter
loadkeys <country> [ <language> [<variant> ] ] change the keyboard interpreter
Details
The loadkeys command allows you to change the current keyboard interpreter. A JNode keyboard interpreter maps device specific codes coming from the physical keyboard into device independent keycodes. This mapping serves to insulate the JNode operating system and applications from the fact that keyboards designed for different countries have different keyboard layouts and produce different codes.

A JNode keyboard interpreter is identified by a triple consisting of a 2 character ISO country code, together with an optional 2 character ISO language code and an optional variant identifier. Examples of valid country codes include "US", "FR", "DE", and so on. Examples of language code include "en", "fr", "de" and so on. (You can use JNode completion to get complete lists of the codes. Unfortunately, you cannot get the set of supported triples.)

When you run "loadkeys <country> ..., the command will attempt to find a keyboard interpreter class that matches the supplied triple. These classes are in the "org.jnode.driver.input.i10n" package, and should be part of the plugin with the same identifier. If loadkeys cannot find an interpreter that matches your triple, try making it less specific; i.e. leave out the <language> and <variant> parts of the triple.

Note: JNode's default keyboard layout is given by the "org/jnode/shell/driver/input/KeyboardLayout.properties" file. (The directory location in the JNode source code tree is "core/src/driver/org/jnode/driver/input/".)

Bugs
Loadkeys should allow you to find out what keyboard interpreter are available without looking at the JNode source tree or plugin JAR files.

Loadkeys should allow you to set the keyboard interpreter independently for each connected keyboard.

Loadkeys should allow you to change key bindings at the finest granularity. For example, the user should be able to (say) remap the "Windows" key to "Z" to deal with a broken "Z" key. This would allow you to configure JNode to use a currently unsupported keyboard type. (It would also help those game freaks out there who have been pounding on the "fire" key too much.)
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