[layout] US International in console

Warnaud · 2010-08-01 14:00:51

Hi guys,

I have an US layout keyboard that I want to setup as ¨US International¨ (cf http://dry.sailingissues.com/us-interna … ayout.html )
On X, no problem:

Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "intl"

And that's it

But in console, first there's no layout called us-intl only:

$ ls */* | grep us
qwerty/br-latin1-us.map.gz
qwerty/is-latin1-us.map.gz
qwerty/us-acentos.map.gz
qwerty/us.map.gz
qwertz/cz-us-qwertz.map.gz

In the /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/
I have setup the layout as us-acentos in /etc/rc.conf however some key combinations are not the same
Example:
To make a ç:
- X11 or Windows® Explorer: AltGr + ,
- TTY: ´ + c
Is there someway I can find the correct layout for the console or fill in a bug report? (kbd seems hosted on kernel.org but I don´t find any place to post)

Many thanks!

karol · 2010-08-01 14:10:54

I suggest

'find /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/ -iname "*us*"

instead of 'ls */* | grep us'

Does the 'is' in 'is-latin1-us.map.gz' mean International Standard or 'Icelandic'?

By "in the console" you mean outside of X? I'm not sure if this can be done. xkblayout is all about X and not the console.
For the console you need the correct 'KEYMAP=' parameter in your rc.conf, but yeah, US-international keymap seems to be missing.

Last edited by karol (2010-08-01 14:44:58)

Warnaud · 2010-08-01 14:43:46

Thanks for the reply,

$ find /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/ -iname "*us*"
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/is-latin1-us.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us-acentos.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/br-latin1-us.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz/cz-us-qwertz.map.gz

I searched only in qwerty folder since it's a qwerty layout basically.

The KEYMAP setting is set to us-acentos in rc.conf, it ¨works¨ but differently as in X ...

I use loadkeys to check :-) and yes by the console I mean in the TTYs outside of X

I don´t know where is-latin1 is from, but it´s not the correct one too :´(

Last edited by Warnaud (2010-08-01 14:51:42)

karol · 2010-08-01 14:46:05

By "in the console" you mean outside of X? I'm not sure if this can be done. xkblayout is all about X and not the console.
For the console you need the correct 'KEYMAP=' parameter in your rc.conf, but yeah, US-international keymap seems to be missing.

Warnaud · 2010-08-01 14:52:21

The KEYMAP setting is set to us-acentos in rc.conf, it ¨works¨ but differently as in X for special chars...

I use loadkeys to check :-) and yes by the console I mean in the TTYs outside of X

I don´t know where is-latin1 is from, but it´s not the correct one too :´(

karol · 2010-08-01 15:09:29

Warnaud wrote:

The KEYMAP setting is set to us-acentos in rc.conf, it ¨works¨ but differently as in X for special chars...
I use loadkeys to check :-) and yes by the console I mean in the TTYs outside of X
I don´t know where is-latin1 is from, but it´s not the correct one too :´(

I Googled a bit and there are (and were) many people asking "where the f is that layout I've read about", so I think you need to ask upstream.

Warnaud · 2010-08-01 15:11:43

Yes, thanks, I also did some googleing and finally I downloaded the latest version of kbd to ask the dev directly :-)

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