Re: qemu-system-arm -nographic question

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 11:12, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, yfliu2008 wrote:
> >
> > > When using "qemu-system-arm -M virt -nographic" using QEMU v6.2 on
> > > Ubuntu 22.04, it seems the "Backspace" key doesn't work,  are
> > > there any solutions?
> >
> > Bear in mind that most keyboards are programmable, and one man's
> > backspace is another man's DEL or CTRL-H which is what I'd try first.
> ...
> Unfortunately keyboard handling has a lot of different layers of
> software between your keypress and something actually happening,
> ...

It occurred to me after I posted that I could have mentioned one of my
anecdotes from about twenty years ago.  A good customer bought a new
computer but he wanted to keep his old keyboard - some weird Microsoft
thing - because he'd got used to its extra buttons and used them a lot
with CAD and what-not.  Trouble was they didn't all work.  By the time
I'd got them all working I'd figured out that there were SEVEN layers
of software between the keyboard and his applications and they all had
their own, different and sometimes conflicting, ideas about what to do
with the extra keys.  Backspace isn't usually a huge problem but it is
one of the more common ones.  For a laugh it might be worth looking at
'man stty' too.

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73,
Ged.