How to type the ~ symbol ?

Forum thread started by Octopus on Mon, 2010-06-07 19:54

I am testing Haiku under VMware Fusion in Mac OS X. Having switched to the German Mac keyboard the combination of ALT+N does no longer create the ~ symbol. Thus I write this message on Mac's Safari browser, where your forum is not displayed completely correct or as intended: the "post new Forum topic" link is not printed on a separate line. But back to my question: how to type a ~ symbol here (C++ binary not operator) ?

P.S.: There also seem to be problems typing: | [ ] symbols at usual places.

P.P.S.: ... similar problem with @ symbol.

Comments

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by humdinger - 2010-06-08 16:23

Since I don't have a Mac and don't use a VM, I can't repoduce your issues, of course...
The only hint I can give is to use the Keymap preferences to see what key lights up and what symbol is printed when you press a key. FWIW, choosing the German (Mac) keymap does have the ~ on OPT+N and @ on OPT+L over here...
Also, ~ being a "dead key", you'd have to press the key twice to generate a ~.

Regards,
Humdinger

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by Octopus - 2010-06-08 18:48

No. There something definitely is wrong with that keyboard layout (German Mac).

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by Octopus - 2010-06-09 16:31

Thank you for recently fixing the addressed forum code for the Mac Safari. And it would be great, if the next Haiku R1 alpha would contain a patched keyboard layout for the German Mac keyboard.

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by humdinger - 2010-06-12 13:29

A few weeks before alpha2 came out, the German (Mac) keymap was supposed to be fixed by Andreas Färber(?). If there's still something wrong, you should consider to file a detailed ticket at dev.haiku-os.org. You could also try to fix things yourself if it's just a few mismatched keys, see the Keymap prefs in the user guide.

Regards,
Humdinger

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by Octopus - 2010-06-12 16:58

The keymap scheme itself seems to look quite ok. Nevertheless it does not work correctly using Haiku via VMware Fusion at an iMac. I will continue to think over this problem ... Until now only '€' 'ç' 'µ' are fully supported when using an ALT key, but mouse clicking at the symbols instead of using the keyboard will do.

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by Octopus - 2010-06-16 08:32

Well, now I have tried at the terminal (first without any changing)

keymap -d >myKeyMap
keymap -l myKeyMap

and only got:

keymap: error when loading the keymap: Bad data

What might be wrong?

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by X512 - 2010-06-16 08:48

This look like BFS damage. Run checkfs.

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by Octopus - 2010-06-16 09:20

I do not think, that there might be the problem. Nevertheless I did at the terminal

checkfs -c Haiku

and got

checkfs: Cold not prepare the device for modifications: Initialization failed

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by X512 - 2010-06-16 09:49

All partitions mount to "/". To check "Haiku" partition use

checkfs -c /Haiku

It isn't FS problem, sorry. Keymap can be loaded after compiling

keymap -d -o myKeyMap
keymap -c -o binMyKeyMap myKeyMap
keymap -l binMyKeyMap
Key map loaded.

, or by -s flag

keymap -d -o myKeyMap
keymap -s myKeyMap
Key map loaded.

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by Octopus - 2010-06-16 09:55

Well, then checkfs is documenting itself badly, per -? it demands for <volume name> not for <volume pathname> or for /<volume name>.
And the keymap documentation in the User Guide seems to be completely misleading ...

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by humdinger - 2010-06-16 12:57

The user guide has been updated a few weeks ago to reflect the changes that weren't noticed before. Don't know when they hit SVN or this site. For the checkfs stuff file a bug report.

Regards,
Humdinger

Re: How to type the ~ symbol ?

by pjrinaldi - 2010-06-30 20:49

Not sure if this helps, but on my windows laptop, if I hit the left shift and the ~ sign, it doesn't work, but if I hit the right shift and the ~ sign, it does work. don't have a mac, but maybe it's similar with that too.