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
