Unable to use backtick (`) in crosh/developer shell

[Chris Roos]

I'm on a Samsung Chromebook (Chrome version info below). The backtick
key works in the browser, although I do have to press it twice to have
it output the character. The backtick key *doesn't* work at all in
crosh (ctrl-alt-t) or the developer shell accessed through crosh (ctrl-
alt-t followed by typing 'shell'). The backtick key does work in the
developer console accessed through VT2 (ctrl-alt-=>)

Is there anything I need to do to access the backtick character in
crosh/developer console?

As a slight aside, I've also noticed that the developer console
accessed through VT2 appears to use an American keyboard layout. Is
it possible to change that?

Cheers, Chris

## Chrome version info

Version 19.0.1084.41 beta
Platform 2046.68.0 (Official Build) beta-channel x86-alex_he
Firmware Alex.03.61.0735.0056G3.0021

[Mike Frysinger]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Chris Roos wrote:
> As a slight aside, I've also noticed that the developer console
> accessed through VT2 appears to use an American keyboard layout.  Is
> it possible to change that?

i don't think we ship kbd in release images by default, so there won't
be loadkeys/etc... for you to run. you'd have to compile & load those
programs and the appropriate keyboard maps, as well as execute them
yourself to make it work.
-mike

[Robert Ginda]

Can you see if there are any messages in the js console?

Rob.

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[Chris Roos]

I've just checked and there are no messages in the js console.  I have noticed that this problem only appears to exist when I'm using the UK Keyboard layout in Chrome.  If I enable and switch to the US Keyboard layout then I can type the backtick correctly.  Could this be a bug with the UK Keyboard layout/mapping?

Cheers, Chris

[Robert Ginda]

+chromium-hterm

I think this is a bug in the way hterm (or maybe Chrome) handles key events from non-US layouts.

See also: http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=29361

Rob.

[Chris Roos]

Thanks for the pointer to that issue, Rob.  I've just added some info there too.

I'm a bit confused by the +chromium-hterm line in your reply.  Is that a suggestion that I should post this to the chromium-hterm list too?

Cheers, Chris

[Robert Ginda]

Thanks for updating the bug.

That line was supposed to indicate that I had added chromium-hterm to the cc list.  Looking back on it though, I forgot to actually add the list.  They're cc'd on this reply.

Rob.