Hi Florian, On +2020-03-31 18:55:59 +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:35:41PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I think we can have both Alt-Shift and what Mathieu implemented, no? > > > > Yes, both would be best, what Mathieu implemented is more > discoverable. > > > However, note that the installed system won’t have Alt-Shift support, > > and perhaps that is a bigger concern. > > Yes. > > guix build -S console-setup > sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/X11 > cd /usr/share/X11 > sudo ln -s > /gnu/store/fabcbhjh4g5fmm39fmkjjhiplqwrg0n8-console-setup-1.194-checkout/Keyboard/ckb > xkb > ckbcomp ar,fr -variant azerty, -option grp:alt_shift_toggle > ~/test > sudo loadkeys ~/test > > works, but I have no idea how to turn that into a keyboard-layout. > I tried setting in /etc/config.scm > > (keyboard-layout > (keyboard-layout "ar,fr" "azerty" #:options '("grp:alt_shift_toggle"))) > > but it threw an error. > > > OTOH, we’re just using the standard XKB layouts, so if they don’t > > provide Alt-Shift, well, perhaps that’s because this is the way it’s got > > to be? > > I did not know back then, but it does work. In dconf-editor, I can > set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources to ['grp:alt_shift_toggle']. It > switches between all configured layouts in GNOME. > > > Is “grp:alt_shift_toggle” guaranteed to be available, no what what > > ‘layout’ is? > > > > Also, that means Alt-Shift is enabled for all layouts, not just the > > non-Latin layouts, right? > > Yes, with the patch I can toggle any layout to US layout and back. >
Have you looked at man vconsole.conf http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/vconsole.conf.5.html Could this be helpful? https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/57085 Also this has more extensive info on creating/modifying keymaps and getting systemd to get them going: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration I don't know if this is useful, but seems like you can affect things early in the boot sequence (from the man page): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Note that the kernel command line options vconsole.keymap=, vconsole.keymap_toggle=, vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=, console.font_unimap= may be used to override the console settings at boot. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > I believe we would need a map from each layout to whether it should be > QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ … Or we would just use QWERTY. > > What do you think is the right path forward? Do the right thing :) > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Florian > -- Regards, Bengt Richter