On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:43 AM hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2022-02-27 at 08:42 +0000, Duncan wrote: > > hw posted on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 15:58:22 +0100 as excerpted: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > how do I alter the keyboard layout for plasma on wayland sessions? > > > > > > I need to put Alt on the left menu key, a dot on the Delete key on the > > > number pad (instead of a comma) and a slash on the '+' key (wich is > > > right to the 'ΓΌ' key)? I used to do that with an xmodmap, > > > but of course that doesn't work anymore with wayland. > > > > > > There must be files somewhere that define all the various keyboard > > > layouts you can pick from, but where are they? That kind of information > > > must not be hidden from the users and should be shown in the settings > > > ... > > > > Some of that can be configured in plasma's systemsettings, hardware, input > > devices, keyboard, advanced. (That's where it is on live-git plasma, > > anyway, specific path may differ on old plasma.) > > So how do I make the changes I described through that? It doesn't seem > possible at all. > > > There's an expander for alt and win key behavior, and another for numeric > > keypad delete behavior. I expect they'll do what you need. > > Like I said, I need an Alt key on the right side of the keyboard (space bar). > There is nothing in the keyboard settings that would allow me to alter the > keyboard layout except for pre-defined stuff which doesn't work for this and > which I don't have access to because there is no way to know where this is > defined. Maybe it's hardcoded? > > > Beyond that, I've seen /hints/ that some of the X tools still work for > > keyboard config, etc, and of course there's libinput's standardization > > which is based on the older evdev. But my knowledge is limited enough on > > that that you can probably google it as efficiently as I could, so... > > From what I've found, they probably don't work for wayland because they are > for X. Why can't we just change our keyboard layouts as we need to? It could > be so simple, but nowadays everything is made ridiculously complicated for no > reason at all ... >
I wanted to recommend moving this conversation, maybe, to a live channel instead. Here are some links that can help: https://t.me/+UpSkIb5sDNG8l-TE https://t.me/vdgmainroom Thank you, Andy -- Andy (anditosan)
