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icebreeze
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 Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:14 am Post subject: Colemak keyboard layout problems |
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I'm currently trying to set xorg to use the colemak keyboard layout using the directions at the Colemak wiki. I have been able to manually test the layout within xorg by doing:
setxkbmap -v colemak && xset r 66
However, when i edit my xorg.conf I am unable to start X in colemak. It constantly defaults to us.
For example:
setxkbmap -v (initial start of xorg)
| Code: | Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev)
geometry: pc(pc104) |
setxkbmap -v colemak && xset r 66 (load colemak layout)
| Code: | Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
Using command line, ignoring X server
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+colemak+inet(evdev)
geometry: pc(pc104) |
So i would assume the line i would need in my xorg.conf file to load the correct symbols would be:
Option "XkbSymbols" "pc+colemak+inet(evdev)"
However, this line seems to have no affect. Any ideas?
My current keyboard setup for xorg is:
| Code: | Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Microsoft Natural Keyboard"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Name" "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbSymbols" "pc+colemak+inet(evdev)"
EndSection
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davidm
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
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Location: US
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This is an old topic but since there are few posts about colemak I figured I'd chime in for anyone else who does a search looking for how to do this on Gentoo. One easy way to get it going with X and setxkbmap is simply:
1. emerge -av setxkbmap
2 . add to .xinitrc:
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setxkbmap us -variant colemak &
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This does the trick for me without having to mess with anything in xorg.conf, hal, or udev.
For the console:
1. Download http://colemak.com/pub/unix/colemak-1.0.tar.gz
2. tar xvzf colemak-1.0.tar.gz
3. mkdir /usr/share/keymaps/i386/colemak
4. cp linux_console/colemak.iso15.kmap /usr/share/keymaps/i386/colemak/
5. mv colemak.iso15.kmap colemak.map
6. gzip colemak.map
7. nano /etc/conf.d/keymaps
8. Change line to:
9. Save file, reboot.
It might be worth consideration for Gentoo to add the colemak keymap for the console as a option on the minimal install CD? I know it's not as popular as QWERTY or DVORAK but for those who have all their keyboards rearranged to Colemak, typing with the Qwerty layout until one can at least do a chroot is quite frustrating indeed!  |
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