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urza9814

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Registered: 2010-06-05

Posts: 28

[Solved] Keyboard layout and disk encryption

So I just got a new laptop and I decided to set up full disk encryption on this one. Problem is, I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, and I can't seem to get that to switch before it asks for the disk password. I've set the keyboard layout in rc.conf with:

KEYMAP="dvorak"

and I've set it for X by adding this line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf :

Option "KxbLayout" "dvorak"

But of course, those are both files on the root drive...which is encrypted. So they obviously won't take effect until after it's decrypted.  I have it set up in grub too, using setkey, but of course that doesn't stay in effect once it starts booting. Is there any way I can set a keyboard layout that will take effect in the gap between grub and arch? Or should I just learn to type in the password in QWERTY?

Last edited by urza9814 (2011-12-26 22:06:22)

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: [Solved] Keyboard layout and disk encryption

mkinitcpio -H keymap

urza9814

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Registered: 2010-06-05

Posts: 28

Re: [Solved] Keyboard layout and disk encryption

Ah! Thank you! In my googling I found a post somewhere claiming it wasn't possible, but I figured there had to be SOME way to edit those images and make it work