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iaguara

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2022-08-14

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[Solved] Set a X11 keyboard layout to the Linux console

Hello,
I have a keyboard whose layout (variant) is uncommon as far as I know. I can choose this layout to use on graphical interfaces, but there is not a option to use on the Linux console/VC.
I could create a custom one, but, in another machine I have (with Alpine Linux), I could choose that layout to use on console.

So, is there a package that adds more keymaps and was not mentioned on the wiki?
Or if I do need to write it myself, is there a chart, a list or something that helps me do that? This seems complex to me.

I have already searched with

localectl list-keymaps

, and this is my current

localectl status

(I want to use the br-nativo on the console):

archlinux% localectl status                  
System Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: us
   X11 Layout: br,us
    X11 Model: pc105
  X11 Variant: nativo,altgr-intl
  X11 Options: grp:win_space_toggle

That's it. And forgive my english, I am not fluent yet.

Last edited by iaguara (2024-10-14 02:32:47)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved] Set a X11 keyboard layout to the Linux console

$ find /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ -type f -name "*br*"
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/br-latin1-us.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/br-latin1-abnt2.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/br-abnt2.map.gz
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/br-abnt.map.gz
$ 

Have you tried all 4 keymaps ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2024-10-13 11:37:40)

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] Set a X11 keyboard layout to the Linux console

Looks like the Alpine package complies extra local keymap variants:

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/a … #L102-L112

The OP could add that to the Arch PKGBUILD (or submit a feature request).

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iaguara

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2022-08-14

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Re: [Solved] Set a X11 keyboard layout to the Linux console

Have you tried all 4 keymaps ?

Yes I had, and by some reason these 4 are almost the same.

Looks like the Alpine package complies extra local keymap variants: ...

This was strangely useful, I see they use the ckbcomp command to convert and there is a AUR package for this program.

Installing that, I was able to convert writing this, as that script does:

$ ckbcomp "br" "nativo" | gzip > /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/br-nativo.map.gz

And changing my /etc/vconsole.conf to:

KEYMAP=/usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/br-nativo

If you are doing the same as I did, you need to change the "br" to your country code or language and changing "nativo" to the variant you want, in both commands.

Now it works as I wanted. Thank you for replying.