Coolkey with german keyboard layout?

[Zamara]

Hello,

which is the corresponding Coolkey for german keyboard layouts? Alt+' doesn't work, and there seems no way of changing the Coolkey to another shortcut. CTRL+Ö does open the options dialog for me, but I'm stumped with the Coolkey.

Any help?

Bye, Zamara

[Eric H. Jung]

Hello Zamara,

The key looks like this: on US-UK-English keyboards. Its ASCII code is 96.

We have a German user of PasswordMaker who is active in the forums--Romeo. Perhaps he can provide more advice. I'll email him, asking him to post here.

Regards,
Eric

[Romeo]

Hi Zamara, I just received an email from Eric askin me to see if I might be able to help.  However, I have never used a Geman keyboard, since I live here in the US, now.  

Eric, I am not sure what the ASCII code for this key combination is.  If the key shown on the image in your post doesn't work, may be Zamara could use the <alt> keypad combination, such as <alt>0252 for ü, or <alt>0246 for ö, and the like.

[Eric H. Jung]

The ASCII code for the symbol is 96. I'll see if I can find out what symbol this maps to on a German keyboard.

Thanks for your help Romeo,
Eric

[Romeo]

It looks to me that it would be <alt>0096.  I just tried it an it gives you the desired key, as shown right here `.  However, as I was trying that, it came to mind that you it would have to be some other ASCII character, because the how would you press <alt> and then <alt>0096 at the same time?

So, the combination of <alt> and ` should be a different code all together, such as <ctrl>A is ASCII-1, I believe.

[Eric H. Jung]

I think I found an answer.

This page (IE only) shows the German keyboard looks like this:



but if you press SHIFT, the keyboard changes to this:



Notice the key to the left of BackSp is the CoolKey. So on a German keyboard, my guess is that CoolKey is ALT-SHIFT-´.

[Eric H. Jung]

there seems no way of changing the Coolkey to another shortcut.

As discussed in the FAQ, you can change the CoolKey to any shortcut by using the KeyConfig extension.

Install the KeyConfig Extension. Scroll down to the PasswordMaker entry and change the shortcut to anything you like. Changes won't take effect until you restart Firefox/Mozilla.

Hope that helps,
Eric

[Guest]

Hi,

Alt+Shift+´ does work, but only every second time. So I have to press the Coolkey-combination twice for the passwort field being filled.  :huh:

I think I'll give the keyconfig extension a try.

Thanks for all your help.
Bye, Zamara