[MeeGo-dev] Why can't I type numbers in QEMU window

[Juha.Riihimaki at nokia.com]

On Aug 25, 2010, at 01:02, ext bob.mccarthy at nokia.com wrote:

> I still can't type the colon character :. It doesn't seemed to be mapped. What I'm trying to do is to mount another file system, so I'd like to be able to type:
> mount -t nfs pluto:/home/bmccarth/workspace /workspace
> 
> Is there a way to change the mapping?

>From emulation point of view, no. We emulate the actual hardware key presses with no translation, i.e. whether pressing x on the pc keyboard, i.e. emulated hardware key number n, produces x or y character inside the emulation is up to the software running inside the emulation to decide.

The N900 emulation in QEMU only picks up the LEFT shift key on the pc keyboard. So you should get that colon character by pressing left shift+period on the pc keyboard. Right shift key on the pc keyboard is currently ignored. The same applies to ctrl and alt keys. I have now fixed this so that both left and right shift/ctrl/alt keys work and I will push the fix to the QEMU gitorious repository shortly.


Regards,
Juha