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How can I set a keyboard shortcut to change a layout from one to another in the virtual console?
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Keyboard layout? You can create an alias.
If there's a way of specifying multiple layouts and toggling between them, it should be in the man page.
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1. Choose a keymap, which contains two desired layouts and specifies a shortcut to toggle them, from `/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/`;
2. Open `/etc/vconsole.conf`;
3. Set the `KEYMAP` directive equal to your choosen keymap;
4. If one of the choosen layouts contains non-latin characters, it needs to set the corresponding font in the `FONT` directive. Fonts are choosen from `/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/`.
Example:
# /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=ruwin_alt_sh-UTF-8 # a keymap which supports typing latin and russian cyrillic characters;
# it also allows to toggle layouts by pressing ALT-SHIFT
FONT=UniCyr_8x16 # A font with cyrillic charactersLast edited by Dowefu (2015-04-02 11:27:45)
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Keyboard layout? You can create an alias.
If there's a way of specifying multiple layouts and toggling between them, it should be in the man page.
If it's possible on Debian why is it not possible on Arch?
Last edited by budkin (2015-07-31 11:37:16)
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Ok, now I almost know how it's done. It has something to do with the ckbcomp program which makes different layouts, and then you just put the name of the compiled layout to vconsole.conf. I don't know how to compile two layouts into one file yet. Here is an example for Russian-US layout using caps lock as a switcher https://cloud.mail.ru/public/b5ad550890 … F-8.map.gz
This certainly needs to be on the wiki
UPDATE: Sorry, broken link, I didn't check it before posting. In order to set toggling between Russian and US layouts to caps lock, you need to issue "loadkeys ruwin_cplk-UTF-8" or set this option in vconsole.conf
Last edited by budkin (2015-07-31 12:34:18)
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