<![CDATA[Changing the Layout of a Physical Keyboard in anbox on a Nexus 5]]>I use a Bluetooth keyboard for my Nexus 5 and as long as it is in Ubuntu everything is fine. However, since it has a German layout, things get messy when you use it in anbox as there is only an English layout available.

So, here is what I did:

  • Own a Ubuntu PC.
  • Copy /home/phablet/anbox-data/android.img to your desktop system
  • Mount the image (if you transferred it to your desktop's Download folder a simple double click might do the trick)
  • Copy the content to an empty directory (lets call it newandroid_img)
  • Go to newandroid_img/system/usr/keychars
  • Delete all .kcm files except virtual.kcm
  • Download the appropriate .kcm file from here and put it in the system/usr/keychars directory and rename it to Generic.kcm
  • Do a "chown -R 100000:100000 newandroid_img
  • Create a new image by "mksquashfs newandroid_img/* newandroid.img"
  • Copy newandroid.img to /home/phablet/anbox-data/ on the phone.
  • Reboot your phone into recovery mode
  • Connect your phone via "adb shell"
  • Go to /data/user-data/phablet/anbox-data/
  • Do "mv android.img oldandroid.img" (Just in case)
  • Do "mv newandroid.img android.img"
  • Reboot

That should be it.
It could be that you can replace the images in a freshly rebooted system as well, but the revovery method appeared to be the safest to me.
Have fun with your äöüßs! (or çs if you feel like it😏 )

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5084/changing-the-layout-of-a-physical-keyboard-in-anbox-on-a-nexus-5RSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 00:32:39 GMTSun, 25 Oct 2020 16:48:44 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the Layout of a Physical Keyboard in anbox on a Nexus 5 on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:19:15 GMT]]>Thanks for the hint. I changed

  • Copy newandroid.img to /home/phablet/anbox-data/

to

  • Copy newandroid.img to /home/phablet/anbox-data/ on the phone.

That should make it clear.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/41899https://forums.ubports.com/post/41899Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:19:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the Layout of a Physical Keyboard in anbox on a Nexus 5 on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:50:55 GMT]]>ah, sure, either way, What I mean is, you explicitly mention

Copy /home/phablet/anbox-data/android.img to your desktop system

to tell people to get the img from the phone to the desktop, but I don's see a step when people should get it back onto the phone

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/41898https://forums.ubports.com/post/41898Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:50:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the Layout of a Physical Keyboard in anbox on a Nexus 5 on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:39:13 GMT]]>I didn't specify the way I copied the files. You can do it by adb push, or, as I did, copy to/from the Nexus' Download directory via drag-and-drop and shell commands.

Or did I miss something?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/41897https://forums.ubports.com/post/41897Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:39:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the Layout of a Physical Keyboard in anbox on a Nexus 5 on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:09:03 GMT]]>nice! thanks for sharing. is there an adb push missing in your instructions?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/41896https://forums.ubports.com/post/41896Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:09:03 GMT