On Sat 24 Sep 2016 at 15:07:10 +0000, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point > >of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign > >fonts "working", but that is another story.) > > > >Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him. I.e., what do those > >of > >you doing this or similar find works comfortably. > > This is what I use in my /etc/default/keyboard file: > > $ grep '^[^#]' /etc/default/keyboard > XKBMODEL="pc101" > XKBLAYOUT="us,ru,sy" > XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="grp:caps_toggle,compose:menu" > BACKSPACE="guess" > > The "ru" portion of the XKBLAYOUT value, and the "grp:caps_toggle" > setting in XKBOPTIONS are the relevant parts for your purposes. > > It makes capslock a toggle between en_US, russian, and syrian arabic > keyboard layout. > > The usual capslock function is still available via Shift+Capslock. > > I'll be interested to see other responses.
Neat! Done as root, of course, because I do not think a user can change the keymap. The setupcon manual implies a ~/.keyboard can be used but it does not work for me. However, a user can set the screen font by specifing a file to use with VARIANT. This is ~/.console-setup.CYR: ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP="UTF-8" CODESET="CyrSlav" FONTFACE="TerminusBold" FONTSIZE="14x28" Load it with 'setupcon -f' CYR. -- Brian.
