bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 01:35:29PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> In the installer, the keyboard layout is handled by KMSCON. It means
> that running setxkbmap or loadkeys commands won't help. As KMSCON only
> supports static keyboard layout setting at start time, I had to patch it
> dirty (see kmscon-runtime-keymap-switch.patch). With this patch, it is
> possible to write keyboard model, layout and variant to the file pointed
> by KEYMAP_UPDATE environment variable, and have the keyboard layout
> updated (see kmscon-update-keymap).
> 
> Mathieu

Thank you for the information.  The attached patch to Guix enables
Alt+Shift toggling of the layout (it is too hacky, and it is always
QWERTY layout!).  But it is possible.

Regards,
Florian

kmscon-toggle-layout.patch
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