{"id":6882,"date":"2022-05-21T16:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2023-03-05T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T20:38:16","slug":"deltaco-gaming-keyboard-and-war-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=6882","title":{"rendered":"Deltaco gaming keyboard and War Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or maybe some other games and similar keyboards too. Anyway, my son has on his Linux PC a cheap Deltaco gaming keyboard, which doesn&#8217;t have a separate delete key. Previously it was no issue, as you could remove troops and buildings using backspace when playing <em>War Selection<\/em>. At some point, however, Glyph Worlds removed backspace &#8220;support&#8221;, leaving only the delete hotkey active. This wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if Deltaco&#8217;s Del key wasn&#8217;t in fact numpad delete with a different keycode <em>not<\/em> supported by the game. Duh. Some simple command line magic will fix the issue temporarily:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">xmodmap -e \"keycode 91 = Delete\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally the key in question produces <em>KP_Delete<\/em>, which is happily accepted by most software. After this little hack you get the wanted <em>Delete<\/em> symbol instead and all should be fine. You can of course map any other key for the purpose as well, <em>xev<\/em> will reveal you the keycodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ja lyhyesti samma p\u00e5 finska. Jos n\u00e4ppiksest\u00e4si puuttuu &#8220;tavallinen&#8221; delete-nappi, kuten t\u00e4ss\u00e4 tapauksessa Deltacon halvasta pelin\u00e4ppiksest\u00e4, et pysty poistamaan joukkoja ja rakennuksia Linuxin <em>War Selectionissa.<\/em> Syyn\u00e4 on se, ett\u00e4 Deltacon Del-n\u00e4pp\u00e4in tuottaa v\u00e4\u00e4r\u00e4n symbolin (<em>KP_Delete<\/em> eik\u00e4 <em>Delete<\/em>). Yll\u00e4 n\u00e4kyv\u00e4 rimpsu korjaa ongelman v\u00e4liaikaisesti. Mink\u00e4 tahansa muun napin voi my\u00f6s m\u00e4p\u00e4t\u00e4 toki tarkoitukseen \u2013 <em>xev<\/em> kertoo, mik\u00e4 on kunkin napin numero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe some other games and similar keyboards too. Anyway, my son has on his Linux PC a cheap Deltaco gaming keyboard, which doesn&#8217;t have a separate delete key. Previously it was no issue, as you could remove troops and buildings using backspace when playing War Selection. At some point, however, Glyph Worlds removed backspace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13,31,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laitteet","category-linux","category-pelit","category-softat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6884,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}