How to verify it really recognizes the Logitech MX Keyboard on Ubuntu?

[binarykitchen]

Hi ya,

Just installed kinto successfully via Command-Line and all seems fine. But how can I really verify kinto truly recognizes the Logitech MX Keyboard layout? It still does not reccognize the default compose key and I still cannot enter German umlauts at all like you can do on MacOS.

Any advice very welcome.

Thanks heaps

[RedBearAK]

@binarykitchen

There is a "tweak" available in the Kinto tray icon menu, or the Kinto GUI app menu, to enable the right-hand Alt key to be recognized as Alt_Gr (I assume this is probably the default Compose key for you).

The method of entering accented and other special characters as if you were holding Option or Shift-Option on macOS is not yet available in standard Kinto. I did implement it, but it requires you to convert your Kinto from using xkeysnail to using keyszer as the keymapper, and also requires a new config file, which can be found here:

#750

Keyszer:
https://github.com/joshgoebel/keyszer

Of course once you get Kinto to stop remapping the right Alt key with the "tweak" setting, you should already be able to use the Linux Compose-key methods to get accented characters.

If you are actually using a German keyboard or keyboard layout, you will find that Kinto currently has some issues with non-US keyboard layouts.