Pinephone Keyboard feedback
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A week later and finally got the keyboard working. (Ran into a problem where I didn't update my board*.dtb files when installing the new kernel).

It didn't occur to me at first, but the extra symbols ('-', '|' etc) are really awkward to use and make actually use a terminal quite painful. I believe others have touched on how unintuitive it is. Like how Fn + 9 and Fn + 7 both yield '-' while some may have expected from the keyboard symbols that one would be a '_'.

I get why it is the way it is since the 2 characters generally share a keycode. I'm thinking of modifying my X keyboard layout such that AltG + 9 and AltG + 7 give '-' and '_' respectively. Or in general that AltG + {1..9} gives the listed key without needing the extra shift.
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Pinephone Keyboard feedback - by TAAPAye - 02-25-2022, 12:33 AM
RE: Pinephone Keyboard feedback - by drh - 02-25-2022, 05:25 AM
RE: Pinephone Keyboard feedback - by TAAPAye - 03-03-2022, 01:56 AM
RE: Pinephone Keyboard feedback - by jurop88 - 03-08-2022, 07:41 AM

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