(12-16-2025, 05:12 PM)WEF Wrote: Trying to use the Pinetab2 as my daily tablet, but the pop up keyboard does not contain all the characters i would like such as Home, End, L Tab, R Tab, F5, would be nice to be able to have these basic functions available from the virtual keypad. Anyone know is there some conf file or something that can be edited to add/change keys to the virtual keyboard? I am running the shipped Arch linux.

Thanks for your suggestions.

(12-16-2025, 06:32 PM)zetabeta Wrote:

(12-16-2025, 05:12 PM)WEF Wrote: Trying to use the Pinetab2 as my daily tablet, but the pop up keyboard does not contain all the characters i would like such as Home, End, L Tab, R Tab, F5, would be nice to be able to have these basic functions available from the virtual keypad. Anyone know is there some conf file or something that can be edited to add/change keys to the virtual keyboard? I am running the shipped Arch linux.

Thanks for your suggestions.

what user interface you are using, plasma, phosh, gnome, etc. if you are using stevia, then i think following applies. (disclaimer: i have pinephone regular and pro, not pinetab.)

you can set terminal keyboard options with gsettings. get the settings first and then set them. be careful about quotation marks and apostrophies. setting is a string, which has table and table has mostly strings inside.

this setting is stored at the user level, not root level.

Code:

[alarm@danctnix ~]$ gsettings get sm.puri.phosh.osk.Terminal shortcuts 
['<ctrl>', '<alt>', 'Up', 'Down', 'Left', 'Right', '<ctrl>r', 'Home', 'End', '<ctrl>w', '<alt>b', '<alt>f', '<ctrl>v', '<ctrl>c', '<ctrl><shift>v', '<ctrl><shift>c', 'Menu']
[alarm@danctnix ~]$ gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk.Terminal shortcuts  "['<ctrl>', '<alt>', 'Up', 'Down', 'Left', 'Right', '<ctrl>r', 'Home', 'End', '<ctrl>w', '<alt>b', '<alt>f', '<ctrl>v', '<ctrl>c', '<ctrl><shift>v', '<ctrl><shift>c', 'Menu']"
[alarm@danctnix ~]$

(12-17-2025, 12:14 PM)WEF Wrote:

(12-16-2025, 06:32 PM)zetabeta Wrote:

(12-16-2025, 05:12 PM)WEF Wrote: Trying to use the Pinetab2 as my daily tablet, but the pop up keyboard does not contain all the characters i would like such as Home, End, L Tab, R Tab, F5, would be nice to be able to have these basic functions available from the virtual keypad. Anyone know is there some conf file or something that can be edited to add/change keys to the virtual keyboard? I am running the shipped Arch linux.

Thanks for your suggestions.

what user interface you are using, plasma, phosh, gnome, etc. if you are using stevia, then i think following applies. (disclaimer: i have pinephone regular and pro, not pinetab.)

you can set terminal keyboard options with gsettings. get the settings first and then set them. be careful about quotation marks and apostrophies. setting is a string, which has table and table has mostly strings inside.

this setting is stored at the user level, not root level.

Code:

[alarm@danctnix ~]$ gsettings get sm.puri.phosh.osk.Terminal shortcuts 
['<ctrl>', '<alt>', 'Up', 'Down', 'Left', 'Right', '<ctrl>r', 'Home', 'End', '<ctrl>w', '<alt>b', '<alt>f', '<ctrl>v', '<ctrl>c', '<ctrl><shift>v', '<ctrl><shift>c', 'Menu']
[alarm@danctnix ~]$ gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.osk.Terminal shortcuts  "['<ctrl>', '<alt>', 'Up', 'Down', 'Left', 'Right', '<ctrl>r', 'Home', 'End', '<ctrl>w', '<alt>b', '<alt>f', '<ctrl>v', '<ctrl>c', '<ctrl><shift>v', '<ctrl><shift>c', 'Menu']"
[alarm@danctnix ~]$

More info on what is installed:
Operating System: Arch Linux ARM
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.9.9-danctnix1-1-pinetab2 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × ARM Cortex-A55
Memory: 7.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mali-G52 r1
Product Name: Pine64 PineTab2 v2.0

Thanks for your reply, trying to figure if it applies to the pinetab2