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#!/bin/bash

# Script to "install" and update the Shadow.tech application on a non-debian-based distribution. This script will download the Debian package, extract it to your a home folder sub-directories, create a .desktop file and clean downloaded files.

# Download latest .deb for Ubuntu 17.10, extract it, and clean unnecessary files.
mkdir ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/data/
wget https://macosx.update.blade-group.fr/mpl/linux/beta/artful/shadowbeta.deb -P ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/
cd ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/
ar -x shadowbeta.deb
mkdir -p data && tar -xf data.tar.xz -C data/

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# Copy and paste this code in the terminal for troubleshooting:
printf "\n\n# System information\n" && inxi -SMCG &&
printf "\n\n# Top 25 rows of shadow.log\n" && head -n 25 ~/.cache/blade/shadow/shadow.log &&
printf "\n\n# User groups\n" && id &&
printf "\n\n# Display manager\n" && echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE &&
printf "\n\n# Video hardware acceleration\n" && vainfo &&
printf "\n\n# ClientSDL dependencies\n" && ldd -v ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/data/opt/Shadow\ Beta/resources/app.asar.unpacked/native/linux/ClientSDL

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#!/bin/bash

# Script to "install" and update the Shadow.tech application on a non-debian-based distribution. This script will download the Debian package, extract it to your a home folder sub-directories, create a .desktop file and clean downloaded files.

# Download latest .deb for Ubuntu 18.04, extract it, and clean unnecessary files.
mkdir ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/data/
wget https://macosx.update.blade-group.fr/mpl/linux/beta/bionic/shadowbeta.deb -P ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/
cd ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/
ar -x shadowbeta.deb
mkdir -p data && tar -xf data.tar.xz -C data/

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# Copy and paste this code in the terminal for troubleshooting:
printf "\n\n# System information\n" && inxi -SMCG &&
printf "\n\n# Top 25 rows of shadow.log\n" && head -n 25 ~/.cache/blade/shadow/shadow.log &&
printf "\n\n# User groups\n" && id &&
printf "\n\n# Display manager\n" && echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE &&
printf "\n\n# Video hardware acceleration\n" && vainfo &&
printf "\n\n# ClientSDL dependencies\n" && ldd -v ~/.config/Shadow\ Beta/data/opt/Shadow\ Beta/resources/app.asar.unpacked/native/linux/ClientSDL | grep "not found"

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Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
* This summary list contains about 2000 characters for most common ocidental/latin languages and most printable symbols but not chinese, japanese, arab, archaic and some unprintable.
Contains character codes in HEX (hexadecimal), decimal number, name/description and corresponding printable symbol.
What is Unicode?

Unicode is a standard created to define letters of all languages ​​and characters such as punctuation and technical symbols. Today, UNICODE (UTF-8) is the most used character set encoding (used by almost 70% of websites, in 2013). The second most used character set is ISO-8859-1 (about 20% of websites), but this old encoding format is being replaced by Unicode.
How to identify the Unicode number for a character?

Type or paste a character: 

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  space
! exclamation mark
" quotation mark
# number sign
$ dollar sign
% percent sign
& ampersand
' apostrophe
( left parenthesis
) right parenthesis

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default  partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "us" {
    include "us(basic)"

    name[Group1]="Fxtec Pro1 English (US, intl., with AltGr dead keys)";

# Extra symbols on levels 3 (YellowArrow modifier) and 4 (Shift+YellowArrow), no dead keys on levels 1 and 2

    key <TLDE> { [       grave,        asciitilde,           dead_grave,            dead_tilde] };
    key <AE01> { [           1,            exclam,          onesuperior,           exclamdown ] };

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! model
  pc101           Generic 101-key PC
  pc102           Generic 102-key (Intl) PC
  pc104           Generic 104-key PC
  pc105           Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
  dell101         Dell 101-key PC
  latitude        Dell Latitude series laptop
  dellm65         Dell Precision M65
  everex          Everex STEPnote
  flexpro         Keytronic FlexPro

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F(x)tec is using the Pro1x as a way to introduce new keyboard layouts, but we noticed the latest proposal on IGG doesn't seem to address the biggest issue with the original Pro¹ shifted qwerty layout: missing slash/question-mark key, creating problems in all OS's and necessity for OS-specific workarounds. Therefore we hope F(x)tec uses this opportunity to not only un-shift but to also improve functionality, especially as alternate OS's like Linux are now clearly targeted.

Fig. 1. Unshifted qwerty layout shown in the Pro1x campaign.

The community quickly showed interest in this topic, with more than 150 posts by users from multiple OS's and about 3k views in just a few days. After one week of vivid discussions to weigh the costs and benefits of each suggestion users came up with, we think we've finally agreed on layout proposals we believe would significantly improve the user

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