Hi there,
there are some voices on the internet that claim that there is no
workaround. That's not quite true. locatectl simply doesn't recognize
the files, because they're named "*.kmap.gz", but it only looks for
"*.map.gz". Don't be embarrassed, I'm sure it was difficult to notice,
after staring at the source code for decades.
The workaround is nearly trivial:
cd /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz
ln -s de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz
# And again for all the keymaps you're interested in.
An actual fix would be to update the internal glob in localectl, or
wherever the function lives that decides whether a filename is
interesting or not.
Cheers,
derandere
