Mikael Jansson <m...@mikael.jansson.be> writes:
> In Ubuntu I added my custom Swedish xkbd by patching the system
> keyboard settings in /usr/share/X11/xkb/{symbols/se,rules/evdev.xml}.
> It then works with the standard Xorg keyboard switching utilities. I
> use GNOME together with StumpWM but that should not make a
> difference.
Where do you specify the group toggle? My custom us layout and the
colemak variant are all under /usr/share/X11/xkb, but Arch tells you to set
keyboard options in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. Where do you set yours?
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
> > David Bjergaard <dbjerga...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> Are you running setxkbmap in .xinitrc or .stumpwmrc? It may
> work if you
> >> put it in .xinitrc before the 'exec stumpwm' line.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> > I set it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
> >
> > Section "InputClass"
> > Identifier "system-keyboard"
> > MatchIsKeyboard "on"
> > Option "XkbLayout" "us,local_us"
> > Option "XkbVariant" ",colemak"
> > Option "XkbOptions"
>
> "compose:menu,ctrl:nocaps,lv3:ralt_alt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:shifts_toggle,altwin:hyper-win"
> > EndSection
> >
> > It used to be (~six months ago and earlier) that if I set it
> like above,
> > with a toggle, then toggling it would only last until I
> switched
> > windows. BUT, if I set it directly with a shell command:
> >
> > setxkbmap -variant colemak
> >
> > Then it would 'stick', more or less. When I went to try it
> again a week
> > or so ago, I found that even setting it with the above
> invocation
> > doesn't work -- it still reverts to qwerty any time I switch
> windows.
> >
> > There have been several major updates to Arch's Xorg package
> recently, I
> > can only imagine that's where the difference has come from. But
> really,
> > who knows.
> >
> > I just tried editing 00-keyboard.conf so that it set colemak
> directly,
> > by taking the grp directive out, and setting layout and variant
> directly
> > to local_us and colemak. That didn't work at all: everything
> started in
> > qwerty, and stayed in qwerty. I have no idea why.
> >
> > I suppose I could try installing a desktop environment and
> using Stump
> > within that. Otherwise, I don't even know where to start
> debugging
> > this...
>
> Hours after writing this, Arch pushed out more major Xorg updates
> -- got
> to love this distribution. Anyway, setting colemak via
> 00-keyboard.conf
> now works as it's meant to, but I can't make it "stick" any other
> way.
> It's not switching windows that kills it: the first invocation of
> the
> prefix key resets the XKB variant to qwerty. I'm still inclined
> to blame
> CLX, but am still in the dark.
>
> >> Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> >>
> >>> Milan Zamazal <p...@debian.org> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Other complaints from Debian users concern non-ASCII or
> Dvorak input in
> >>>> Stumpwm, e.g.:
> >>>>
> >>>> It is not possible to input cyrillic characters into
> stumpwm prompts,
> >>>> so it is not possible to exec programs with cyrillic
> arguments.
> >>>>
> >>>> What can be done about it? It's probably more problem of
> CLX than of
> >>>> Stumpwm, is there any way to get working support for XKB
> input in SBCL
> >>>> and CLISP?
> >>>
> >>> Possibly faintly related: I've never gotten xkb keyboard
> layouts to work
> >>> while using Stump. If I switch to colemak with a setxkbmap
> invocation
> >>> (or trigger keys), it is reset to qwerty the next time I
> switch windows.
> >>>
> >>> I also suspect CLX. I left a note on the sharplispers/clx
> github page
> >>> (since that seems to be the implementation I'm using, via
> quicklisp),
> >>> but haven't heard anything.
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, if anyone digs into this issue, you might help me
> keep an eye
> >>> out for this issue as well...
> >>>
> >>> Eric
> >>>
> >>>
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