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Re: Colemak layout at boot time



On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 19:50:22 (+0100), piorunz wrote:
> On 19/09/2021 14:11, Curt wrote:
> 
> > > Thanks, unfortunately, this is Arch only, vconsole.conf doesn't even
> > > exist in Debian.
> > 
> > Right, but I was alluding to the "solution" by rsolva further down (for
> > the console), which might be practicable in Debian (more or less). Or
> > maybe not.
> > 
> >   ckbcomp -layout no -variant colemak > no-colemak.map gzip
> >   no-colemak.map sudo mv no-colemak.map.gz
> >   /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/colemak/
> > 
> > (For Norwegian colemak.)
> > 
> > I think you need 'console-data'.
> 
> Thanks. However,
> /usr/share/kbd/ folder doesn't exist on my computer.
> Installing console-data doesn't change that.

That looks like the way Debian used to handle the keyboard in
pre-squeeze days. For the last ten years, consoles have been
configured using the same files (ie under /usr/share/X11/xkb/)
as X uses.

Cheers,
David.


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