Re: Colemak layout at boot time
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote:
> > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including
> > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833
> > > which uses dvorak as an example.
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > Yes I seen this page.
> >
> > ckbcomp dvorak command outputs the layout details and everything.
> >
> > However:
> > $ ckbcomp colemak
> > /usr/bin/ckbcomp: Can not find file "symbols/colemak" in any known directory
> >
> > >
> > > I don't recall the definition of "boot time password". Does this
> > > denote something that Grub asks, or is it when dmcrypt is running
> > > from the initrd?
> >
> > By that I meant GRUB editor and Debian's standard whole disk encryption
> > in Debian. I don't have Colemak there. I need to enter password in
> > Colemak. Yes, I think that's called dmcrypt.
> >
> > > Which is a reminder: is your keyboard definition
> > > in /etc/default/keyboard getting incorporated into the initrd or not?
> >
> > I don't know that. I only have Colemak in KDE. Everything else,
> > including virtual terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F keys) are Qwerty.
>
> How do you normally login, at a VC or in a Display Manager?
>
> Where did you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" from?
>
> Have you seen this line:
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64
> since you changed /etc/default/keyboard and ran
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration?
I replied just now before seeing this. I think I may have taken the "GRUB uses the US keyboard layout by default" in my link a bit too far!
>
> Checking your current initrd is a little tedious: you run
> unmkinitramfs to unpack the initrd, and you zcat your
> /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz to, say, /tmp.
> Then run, eg:
>
> $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
> /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
> $
>
> where they are the unpacked and decompressed files respectively.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
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