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Bug#950935: console-setup: Adding support for custom XKB rules?



Package: console-setup
Version: 1.194
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

As detailed on https://who-t.blogspot.com/2020/02/user-specific-xkb-configuration-part-1.html
libxkbcommon now allows users to have custom XKB configurations. It
would be useful for console-setup to provide a similar support, so as
to be able to amend keyboard layouts, instead of having to choose only
between those predefined in xkb-data.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.5.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux     1.194
ii  debconf                 1.5.73
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.194
ii  xkb-data                2.26-2

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.29-9
ii  lsb-base  11.1.0

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf                 1.5.73
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-4

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers     1.57
ii  initscripts             2.96-2.1
ii  kbd                     2.0.4-4
ii  keyboard-configuration  1.194

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn  console-common        <none>
pn  console-data          <none>
pn  console-tools         <none>
ii  gnome-control-center  1:3.34.2-1
ii  kbd                   2.0.4-4
ii  systemd               244.1-1

-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode: compose:lwin,nbsp:level3n,grp:shift_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,kpdl:kposs
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode: oss,
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* keyboard-configuration/model: PC générique 105 touches (internat.)
* console-setup/fontsize: 16x32
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true
* console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16x32 (uniquement tampon vidéo (« framebuffer »))
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: fr,brai
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
  console-setup/use_system_font:
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Français - Français (variante obsolète)
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  console-setup/guess_font:
* keyboard-configuration/compose: Left Logo key
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/other:
* console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16x32 (uniquement tampon vidéo (« framebuffer »))
* console-setup/fontface47: TerminusBold
* console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages

-- 
Samuel
Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into
super-edit-debug-compile mode?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially
Emacs.)


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