Gentoo - Sabayon linux and Darkplaces

[inkub0]

Hi, i got a strange issue with my Sabayon linux running darkplaces...

the engine starts perfectly, but, when i press "\" as i do in windows, the console doesnt appear...

it's pretty strange!

What can i do to invoke the console in linux?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

find the config.cfg , and add

bind "~" "toggleconsole"

pretty sure anyway, and did I read correctly you use the forward slash for opening console? Thats not a default key-bound location for the console ,that is odd on its own. Did you move it to the / button on purpose?

[inkub0]

no, maybe is the default for ITalian Keyboard layout!
i'll try your suggestion...

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Keyboard layout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the tilde (~) character is not present on the Italian keyboard layout

Italian Standard kb layout


vs

US Standard kb layout


The button placement is still the same, so that makes sense.


That explains a whole lot !! That,and I've never seen a foriegn keyboard, ever !

[inkub0]

maybe linux expects the tilde....

[Spirit]

shift-escape

[jtarin]

To determine the keycodes for keys on your keyboard, you can run a program called "xev". When running, you just press keys and you'll see the codes appear in the program. By keeping track of these you can make changes to the keys that need updating.

Then, you use a commandline program called "xmodmap (http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/w3mman2html.cgi?xmodmap(1))" to remap a keystroke. So for instance:

xmodmap -e 'keycode 234=F2'

This would remap the key on the keyboard that generates keycode signal 234 to now be treated as the "F2" key. You can read the xmodmap documentation online to determine how to refer to various keystrokes.

So then you can build up a list of xmodmap lines, and put them all in a script that gets executed at login time, so that your keyboard is mapped the way you like.
You might just map an unused key to the Tilde key ~.
BTW according to sources the keycode for Tilde is most likely 126.

[inkub0]

shift-escape

THANKS

[bluntz]

Tilde~

The funny thing about this thread is I use ~ to open my terminal
in linux just like I would in game...
anyhow I think its toggleconsole bound to whatever key you like.

[dfsp_spirit]

Sounds like a nice idea at first but if ~ is bound to yakuake or some other terminal emulator in linux, how do you do stuff like

cp somefile ~/develop/

?

Do you always type

cp somefile /home/<user>/develop/

instead?

Or do you use $HOME?