How to change the keyboard layout ?

[mherger]

> To be a little clearer, if we select French, on the LCD screen it is an
> AZERTY keyboard that appears.
> However:
> In France it is the AZERTY keyboard that is used.
> In Canada I think it is the QWERTY
> In Switzerland the QWERTZ (Ich bin auch in der Schweiz!).
>
> So I was wondering if it was possible to have these nuances...

Oh, are you saying that the three examples you mentioned would be what
you'd expect, while you'd always get AZERTY? Then we agree: yes, that's
a limitation in Squeezeplay/JiveLite.

[PaulH]

>>> In theory it should be possible to select both of them independent[color=blue][color=green]
I just tested this again,
and living in Switzerland, running LMS on a Mac set up with
German/Switzerland, Squeezeplay set to French would use AZERTY. I'm not
sure what input PaulH is referring to if he gets QWERTZ.

I don't have QWERTZ; I would like to have QWERTZ instead of AZERTY on my Pi with LCD display.

[gordonb3]

Try this:

Open a (ssh) console and execute the following code block

## * Create script to override language based automatic keyboard layout selection

cat > /root/slim-set-kbmap.sh <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
#
# script to override the language based automatic keyboard layout selection in SqueezePlay
# - takes an alpha-2 ISO country code as input
# - if the input is invalid, empty or unsupported, then the script will restore default behaviour.
#
# (c) 2022 gordonb3


inputlang="\$1.."
if [[ "\${inputlang:0:2}" == "\$1" ]]; then
        ISOlang=\$(grep -i -m1 -o "'qwerty_\$1'" /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua | grep -i -o \$1)
        newkbdlang="'\${ISOlang}'"
else
        newkbdlang="locale"
fi

if \$(grep -q "kbType .. '_' .. \${newkbdlang}" /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua); then
        echo "keyboard layout is already set to \${newkbdlang/locale/default}"
else
        echo "setting keyboard layout to \${newkbdlang/locale/default}"
        sed -e "s/\(local localizedKeyboard\).*$/\\1 = kbType .. '_' .. \${newkbdlang}/" \\
            -i /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua

        echo -e "\nNote: you must restart SqueezePlay for the change to take effect"
fi
EOF

## * Mark the script as executable

chmod +x /root/slim-set-kbmap.sh

## * Execute script to set the keyboard map to German (DE)

/root/slim-set-kbmap.sh de

[PaulH]

Thanks Gordon
I got:

/root/slim-set-kbmap.sh: line 3: syntax error: unexpected "(" (expecting "fi")

[gordonb3]

Strange. Line 3 should be a comment line in the created file. Somehow on your system it doesn't appear to generate the correct result. The intended content of /root/slim-set-kbmap.sh is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# script to override the language based automatic keyboard layout selection in SqueezePlay
# - takes an alpha-2 ISO country code as input
# - if the input is invalid, empty or unsupported, then the script will restore default behaviour.
#
# (c) 2022 gordonb3


inputlang="$1.."
if [[ "${inputlang:0:2}" == "$1" ]]; then
        ISOlang=$(grep -i -m1 -o "'qwerty_$1'" /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua | grep -i -o $1)
        newkbdlang="'${ISOlang}'"
else
        newkbdlang="locale"
fi

if $(grep -q "kbType .. '_' .. ${newkbdlang}" /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua); then
        echo "keyboard layout is already set to ${newkbdlang/locale/default}"
else
        echo "setting keyboard layout to ${newkbdlang/locale/default}"
        sed -e "s/\(local localizedKeyboard\).*$/\1 = kbType .. '_' .. ${newkbdlang}/" \
              -i /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua

        echo -e "\nNote: you must restart SqueezePlay for the change to take effect"
fi

If you can find your way in the editor (vi) create the file manually instead.

[PaulH]

Strange. Line 3 should be a comment line in the created file. Somehow on your system it doesn't appear to generate the correct result. The intended content of /root/slim-set-kbmap.sh is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# script to override the language based automatic keyboard layout selection in SqueezePlay
# - takes an alpha-2 ISO country code as input
# - if the input is invalid, empty or unsupported, then the script will restore default behaviour.
#
# (c) 2022 gordonb3


inputlang="$1.."
if [[ "${inputlang:0:2}" == "$1" ]]; then
        ISOlang=$(grep -i -m1 -o "'qwerty_$1'" /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua | grep -i -o $1)
        newkbdlang="'${ISOlang}'"
else
        newkbdlang="locale"
fi

if $(grep -q "kbType .. '_' .. ${newkbdlang}" /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua); then
        echo "keyboard layout is already set to ${newkbdlang/locale/default}"
else
        echo "setting keyboard layout to ${newkbdlang/locale/default}"
        sed -e "s/\(local localizedKeyboard\).*$/\1 = kbType .. '_' .. ${newkbdlang}/" \
              -i /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua

        echo -e "\nNote: you must restart SqueezePlay for the change to take effect"
fi

If you can find your way in the editor (vi) create the file manually instead.

Now my file is the same: but I got:
grep: /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua: No such file or directory
setting keyboard layout to default
sed: /usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua: No such file or directory

and after reboot slim-set-kbmap.sh disappeared (I did however :wq)

Thanks

[Greg Erskine]

If you are using piCorePlayer? you have to remember piCore is a very unique Linux distribution. RAM based, minimal system so lots of programs/tools missing, different file structure. Very different to Raspberry Pi OS.

[PaulH]

If you are using piCorePlayer? you have to remember piCore is a very unique Linux distribution. RAM based, minimal system so lots of programs/tools missing, different file structure. Very different to Raspberry Pi OS.

Yes, PcP !

[gordonb3]

Ah... I missed that.

Don't have a Pi, so I can't really test any of the following. Quick glimpse seems to indicate that in PCP optional packages have been moved from root to /usr/local, so you probably need to prefix the path to Keyboard.lua with that (i.e. /usr/local/usr/share/jive/jive/ui/Keyboard.lua ). If it's not there try the `find` command.

Another thing, as PCP loads its RAM filesystem from compressed files on the SD card the change you make (if possible) will not persist between boots.

Edit:
Seems I'm missing more as PCP does not include SqueezePlay but SqueezeLite which is headless, i.e. does not provide a user interface. So at this point I'm not sure where the GUI you are seeing on your LCD originates from. It seems plausible that this is the LMS web content?