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jfk

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Registered: 2017-12-11

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Understanding “evdev+aliases(qwerty)“ in XKB

I'm trying to understand correctly the meaning of the variable evdev+aliases(qwerty) (and how to change it) from:   

$ setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
        Setting verbose level to 10
        locale is C
        Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
        Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
        Success.
        Applied rules from evdev:
        rules:      evdev
        model:      pc105
        layout:     ch
        variant:    fr
        Trying to build keymap using the following components:
        keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
        types:      complete
        compat:     complete
        symbols:    pc+ch(fr)+inet(evdev)
        geometry:   pc(pc105)
        xkb_keymap {
        	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
        	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
        	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
        	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+ch(fr)+inet(evdev)"	};
        	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
        };rec 

My locale being ch_fr I got a QWERTZ ouput. Why is it that the keycodes and xkb_keymap are QWERTY?

Last edited by jfk (2020-07-11 19:20:47)