Bug 90684

Summary:	Add model layout for new chromebooks
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	parrenin, peter.hutterer, svu
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	0001-Add-support-for-chromebooks-layout.patch 0001-Add-support-for-chromebooks-layout.patch - v2

Description Benjamin Tissoires 2015-05-27 19:17:24 UTC

Created attachment 116091 [details]
0001-Add-support-for-chromebooks-layout.patch

The recent (the first Pixel has it actually) chromebook laptops present a non generic keyboard layout. They are lacking a few key (like Delete, page Up, page down, etc...), and present a different meaning for the regular F01-F10 keys (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook_Pixel#/media/File:Chromebook_Pixel_%28WiFi%29_open.JPG).

The attached patch allows to have a chromebook functional model for the us layout. I used the right alt as the modifier 3 to be able to be transparent for applications, so it does not work currently with other layouts with fancy keys (like fr or de).

I am open to any suggestions regarding how to proper implement the layout.

For the record, I made some screenshots of the shortcuts proposed by ChromeOS, and I can understand why they went away from XKB in the recent versions:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4-hpjeETXEWajV0YjE3b19xdUU&authuser=0

Comment 1 Benjamin Tissoires 2015-05-29 21:12:43 UTC

Created attachment 116159 [details] [review]
0001-Add-support-for-chromebooks-layout.patch - v2

Of course, changing the patch before sending made things worse:
the F5 keys can not be remapped to Super_L or the original Super_L (on the Caps Lock key) does not work properly.

Comment 2 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2015-09-15 14:38:26 UTC

Thank you, committed.

But I think it would be more appropriate to fix it at lower level...

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