zas/rokeyshack

A small libxcb patch to fix RegnumOnline game with french keyboards

French keyboard hack for Champions of Regnum Online (https://www.championsofregnum.com/)

This game has very bad support for key binding and especially with french keyboards under Linux.

• Clone this repo in ~/src

    sudo apt-get install git

    mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src && git clone https://github.com/zas/rokeyshack.git

• To build modified version of libxcb, you need (ubuntu):

    sudo apt-get install build-essential xsltproc xcb-proto libpthread-stubs0-dev libxau-dev python3-xcbgen

• Create a target directory and cd to it:

    mkdir -p ~/rokeyshack.built && cd  ~/rokeyshack.built

• Download original version:

    wget https://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/libxcb-1.13.tar.bz2

• Unarchive in the keyboard hack directory:

    tar xvjf libxcb-1.13.tar.bz2 &&  mv libxcb-1.13 libxcb.patched

• Patch it:

    cd libxcb.patched/ && patch -p1 < ~/src/rokeyshack/libxcb-1.13.patch

• Build it:

    ./configure && make

• Use it:

    cd .. && cp ~/src/rokeyshack/ro_launch.sh .
    ./ro_launch.sh

Note: you may want to adjust values in src/hack.h