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From: | Rey-Coyrehourcq Sébastien |
Subject: | Use Optimot (variant of Bépo kb layout) with xkblayout tool into guix home ? |
Date: | Tue, 2 May 2023 18:04:45 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.0 |
Hi,As many french people i try to use Bépo layout on my keyboard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%89PO ) to prevent "Repetitive Strain Injury".
But if Bépo is great to write text, this is not the case for programming or writing english.
I discover that a variant of Bépo dedicated to correct these problems exist and work very well on many keyboards layout (ortholinear, hhkb, ergo, etc.). This variant of Bépo is named "Optimot" : http://forum.bepo.fr/viewtopic.php?id=2049
This very specific layout is not listed in setxkbmap configuration options, so i search some way to load this layout from my home config.scm
With help of guix/bépo guys I found a xkb layout generator (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/whot/xkblayout) already packaged into guix. This tools is named xkb-layout/xkblayout, developped by Peter Hutterer (https://who-t.blogspot.com/2020/09/user-specific-xkb-configuration-putting.html ) and it helps the definition of a user defined xkb layout by using the existing xkb integration of the system. So using that i suppose i could load an "Optimot" layout for Gnome.
The package is here : /gnu/packages/xdisorg.scm , and more precisely here : https://git.sjtu.edu.cn/sjtug/guix/-/blob/v1.4.0/gnu/packages/xdisorg.scm?ref_type=tags#L448
How i could link/load the xkb layout generated by xkblayout into my guix home "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xkb" using the Guix system of keyboard described here https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Keyboard-Layout.html ?
is it only possible ? Do you have some pointers on your config to do that ? Bonus : it's seems that works on wayland. Best, Src.
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