Re: Colemak layout at boot time
On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 09:38:26 (+0100), piorunz wrote:
> On 19/09/2021 05:49, David Wright 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?
>
> I login to KDE login screen. Actually I have clean Debian 11 with KDE.
> No modifications to system.
I forgot to ask one more question: is your /boot encrypted, or just
everything else? Very relevant to the comment you added to this post.
> > Where did you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" from?
>
> I run it from Konsole.
My understanding is that when you switch to a console from a DE,
spme (mumbling) is done, and this is reversed when you switch
back again. This might be why your changes aren't persisting.
When I configure the keyboard and console-setup, I always do it
before I start X, so I can use my 1988 British IBM clicky keyboard
to login.
However, I've made no attempt to configure Grub, as I know about
the odd punctuation keys that are swapped about with US/GB.
> > 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?
>
> No. sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration asked questions, and
> didn't generated any output in terminal. I actually run this command
> several times now, with reboots, and no change. in
> keyboard-configuration menu itself, Colemak is selected,
> /etc/default/keyboard file also is all correct, but I don't have Colemak
> at dm-crypt password time, nor in virtual consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F keys).
Then I would rebuild my initramfs with update-initramfs.
> > 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.
>
> Unpacked:
> unmkinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) initramfs/
>
> > Then run, eg:
> >
> > $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
>
> ~/initramfs/main/etc$ ls
> default fonts fstab ld.so.cache ld.so.conf ld.so.conf.d lvm mdadm
> modprobe.d mtab nsswitch.conf os-release passwd plymouth udev
>
> There is no console-setup folder in unpacked initramfs folder.
>
> $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
> /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
> diff: …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap: No such file or
> directory
> diff: /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap: No such file or directory
>
> $ apt-file search cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
> (no results here)
After update-initramfs, you should get console-setup in your initramfs.
Cheers,
David.
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