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I use the workman keyboard layout and am fairly good with it but the arch installer doesn't have it as an option and i don't know how to install it and on qwerty I get like 3 wpm. This is the keyboard layout I use is: https://github.com/workman-layout/Workman specific file (I think): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/workm … iso15.kmap I try downloading the file using curl but it failed my guess is that the system has no file system. I do not know where the folder for the keymaps is on the iso. Im pretty sure on a functioning system it should be at /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ but this is an ISO and so I do not know where it is. I have been struggling with this for over two hours and it would be a massive help for advice on how to install this keyboard layout since i practically can not type with out it
Last edited by wolf2482 (2022-02-06 21:51:34)
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Update i found that you can use curl do download files into directories by curl -o ../usr/share/kbd/keymaps/workman.map https://raw.githubusercontent.com/workm … iso15.kmap the file in question is a .kmap file but it looks similar to .map files in syntax so i think it should work but it doesn't i will updated one i read the docs on those files.
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I Installed the workman layout so any future reader I'm not going to leave you completely stranded
first step: download the file to ../usr/share/kbd/keymaps/[file name of your choice here in my case workman.kmap]
(if not workman but still from githup you will have to figure the url and if not from github ignore step 1 and figure out how to download the file i would tell you if i knew how) so run curl -o ../usr/share/kbd/keymaps/[file name of your choice here in my case workman.kmap] [url of the file in my case: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/workm … so15.kmap]
second step: run loadkeys [directory of where you downloaded file in my case: ../usr/share/kbd/keymapsworkman.kmap]
last step: edit/creat the file /etc/vconsole.conf to include the line KEYMAP=/usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/workman.kmap
this is really bad and quick but it should send you in the right direction
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I restared do to selecting bios when setting up a vm instead of uefi but here is a screen shot i probably messed up the last command/file edit to make it constant so you will need to run the second command on boot i think but idk here is the photo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x6fJ-N … sp=sharing
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Here is how to install the workman keyboard layout:
first down the file to ../usr/share/kbd/keymaps/(file name of choice in my case workman.kmap). how i downloaded the file workman users can simply copy the command:
curl -o ../usr/share/kbd/keymaps/(your file name) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/workm … iso15.kmap
and set the keyboard layout
loadkeys ../usr/share/kbd/keymaps/(your file name)
then after mounting the root partition do the first command you ran except to (note: this is while not chrooted you can do it while chrooted but the command is slightly different) ../mnt/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/(your file name) instead of ../usr/share/kbd/keymaps/(your file name) so:
curl -o ../mnt/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/(your file name) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/workm … iso15.kmap
(same note above still applies) then update the ../mnt/etc/vconsole.conf file to include line KEYMAP=/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/(your file name)
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Wolf, I want to thank you for this excellent post. It has proven very useful. Well done. Best of all your procedure works whereas others don't.
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