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sheomualjy

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Registered: 2011-12-23

Posts: 37

Using an X11 keyboard layout in a vconsole outside of X?

Hi all,

I write a lot of german, and I use the dvorak international keyboard layout to do so. Under X11, it's designated by setting XkbLayout="us" and XkbVariant="dvorak-intl".

I also really love to work in the console, outside of X, but unfortunately I cannot find such a dvorak-intl layout which I can use within the console. The arch wiki says that the dvorak-intl layout is only available for X11 at this stage. There's a myriad of other specialised dvorak layouts available for the console, such as dvorak-es, dvorak-programmer, dvorak-uk and so on, but not the dvorak-intl. This means that I cannot write german umlaut characters such as ä, ö and ü within the console environment.

My question is: is there a way I can manually convert the X11 keyboard layout into a console keyboard layout? If not, does anyone know where I can download the dvorak-intl keyboard layout prepared for use in a console?

Cheers,
sheomualjy