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bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin ke
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) |
Subject: |
bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:44:49 +0200 |
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 08:45:05PM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Maybe we could add a help menu with <F1> key shortcut. From that
> help menu, one could change the current keyboard layout from any
> installation step?
>
Yes, that is definitely a good place, *but* now that I saw Debian, it
would be good to additionally have a key combination. I think
switching in an F1 help menu is more discoverable and having both
would be good.
>From what an Arab friend told me, they are used to a key combination
(Alt+Shift if I remember correctly, as is Debian’s default; Debian
makes the combination configurable). But I cannot figure out how to
make loadkeys use a key combination; ckbcomp seems not to produce
right results.
In QEMU on the compatibility console I ran “sendkey ctrl-alt-f3“. I
then tried:
guix environment --ad-hoc console-setup #so I can run ckbcomp
mkdir -p /usr/share/X11/
cd /usr/share/X11
ln -s $(guix build -S console-setup)/Keyboard/ckb xkb
ckbcomp ar, -variant azerty, -option grp:toggle > ~/test
loadkeys us #so I can switch back, I hoped, but it does not work
loadkeys ~/test
But now I can only type Arabic. Maybe it is because of QEMU.
I tried changing the keyboard-layout in /etc/config.scm, but then I
can no longer type my password.
Regards,
Florian
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/03/28
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, Mathieu Othacehe, 2020/03/29
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts,
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <=
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, Mathieu Othacehe, 2020/03/30
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/03/30
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/03/30
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/03/31
- bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2020/03/31
bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/03/29