Showing posts with label busybox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label busybox. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Busybox keymaps

I'm currently developing an embedded system using BusyBox. I've had it up and running for a week or two and I'd been putting up with a US keyboard layout, quite annoying when I'm using a UK keyboard.

I finally took the time to look into solving it and found out that BusyBox uses a binary keymap rather than the usual Linux keymaps ("man keymaps" for more info).

Quick solution was to apt-get install busybox on my ubuntu box and run busybox dumpkmap > uk to dump my current keymap into the binary keymap format busybox understands. Running loadkmap <>in busybox now gives me the correct keymap. No more ">" when I'm expecting "|"!