Keyboard problems in QEMU and Chromium OS

[bob olbrich]

I just completed a successful build of Chromium OS and boot

through QEMU here.

At the login screen I've lost the ability to enter a "@" for the  email address.

It seems as though all the keys in the numeric row will only produce a

number - whether or not the caps lock is on. I can't enter any of the following:

!@#$%^&*()

Most everything else is fine.

All the alphabetic keys work for small (caps lock off) or large (caps lock on) letters.

I can click on the time to bring up the interface to choose another keyboard.

I tried all five choices (us (default), us int, us ext, dvorak, program dvorak),

but none seem to solve the problem. Any ideas?

In the documentation there is reference to a "settings" selection in the "input"

interface, but I see no such settings "button"! Am I reading outdated docs?

I have saved all my terminal output during the build process, if anyone thinks

it's relevant.

Thanks

[Evan Benn]

Gday,

caps lock does not normally change numbers into symbols, try shift. 

Evan

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[bob olbrich]

Shift does not produce symbols either!

Thanks

[bob olbrich]

I added  "-k en-us" to qemu command - same problem.

I'm on an HP Envy x360 running Linux Mint 19.1

Some of my packages reflect the age of this OS.

[bob olbrich]

I read up on the QEMU monitor command 'sendkey'.

It allows you to send keys to QEMU.

The @ symbol appears fine when I type "sendkey @", but the command fails and does not recognize the @. Darn it.

I also found the following post. Can someone translate? The humor gets in the way. I'm too new to QEMU!

[bob olbrich]

I should have tried 'sendkey shift-2'. That got me a "@". So I have a workaround.

I'm still interested the translation, anyway!

[Bob Olbrich]

The post I referred to may be out of date.

It refers to /usr/share/keymaps which is not present on my laptop.

I have /usr/share/qemu/keymaps.

I've also posted on the Linux Mint forums.

They may help find a solution specifically for QEMU on Linux Mint.

[Bob Olbrich]

I think I may have found a custom solution here. Look in the comments by Mr. Penner.

He lays out the code to cure this specific issue on a Chromebook. I'll have to digest it.

Can anyone help me "install" this code?

Thanks