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Re: Colemak layout at boot time

From piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Colemak layout at boot time
Date 2021-09-19 10:40 +0200
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On 19/09/2021 05:49, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote:
>> On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote:
>>
>>> A lot of hits from googling   grub colemak   including
>>> https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833
>>> which uses dvorak as an example.
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> Yes I seen this page.
>>
>> ckbcomp dvorak command outputs the layout details and everything.
>>
>> However:
>> $ ckbcomp colemak
>> /usr/bin/ckbcomp: Can not find file "symbols/colemak" in any known directory
>>
>>>
>>> I don't recall the definition of "boot time password". Does this
>>> denote something that Grub asks, or is it when dmcrypt is running
>>> from the initrd?
>>
>> By that I meant GRUB editor and Debian's standard whole disk encryption
>> in Debian. I don't have Colemak there. I need to enter password in
>> Colemak. Yes, I think that's called dmcrypt.
>>
>>> Which is a reminder: is your keyboard definition
>>> in /etc/default/keyboard getting incorporated into the initrd or not?
>>
>> I don't know that. I only have Colemak in KDE. Everything else,
>> including virtual terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F keys) are Qwerty.
>
> How do you normally login, at a VC or in a Display Manager?

I login to KDE login screen. Actually I have clean Debian 11 with KDE.
No modifications to system.

>
> Where did you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" from?

I run it from Konsole.

>
> Have you seen this line:
>    update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64
> since you changed /etc/default/keyboard and ran
>    sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration?

No. sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration asked questions, and
didn't generated any output in terminal. I actually run this command
several times now, with reboots, and no change. in
keyboard-configuration menu itself, Colemak is selected,
/etc/default/keyboard file also is all correct, but I don't have Colemak
at dm-crypt password time, nor in virtual consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F keys).

> Checking your current initrd is a little tedious: you run
> unmkinitramfs to unpack the initrd, and you zcat your
> /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz to, say, /tmp.

Unpacked:
unmkinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) initramfs/

> Then run, eg:
>
> $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap

~/initramfs/main/etc$ ls
default  fonts  fstab  ld.so.cache  ld.so.conf  ld.so.conf.d  lvm  mdadm
  modprobe.d  mtab  nsswitch.conf  os-release  passwd  plymouth  udev

There is no console-setup folder in unpacked initramfs folder.

$ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
/tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
diff: …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap: No such file or
directory
diff: /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap: No such file or directory

$ apt-file search cached_UTF-8_del.kmap
(no results here)

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With kindest regards, Piotr.

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Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-18 13:10 +0200
  Re: Colemak layout at boot time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-18 21:10 +0200
    Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-18 23:00 +0200
      Re: Colemak layout at boot time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-19 06:50 +0200
        Re: Colemak layout at boot time "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-09-19 07:20 +0200
          Re: Colemak layout at boot time "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-09-19 12:50 +0200
            Re: Colemak layout at boot time "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-09-19 14:10 +0200
              Re: Colemak layout at boot time "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-09-19 14:30 +0200
                Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 14:50 +0200
                Re: Colemak layout at boot time "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-09-19 15:10 +0200
                Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 15:30 +0200
                Re: Colemak layout at boot time Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-19 21:40 +0200
                Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 22:40 +0200
                Re: Colemak layout at boot time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-20 01:40 +0200
        Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 10:40 +0200
          Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 12:40 +0200
          Re: Colemak layout at boot time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-19 21:40 +0200
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 22:40 +0200
            [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 22:40 +0200
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-20 01:40 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-20 02:40 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-20 07:00 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-20 16:20 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-20 23:10 +0200
  Re: Colemak layout at boot time Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-19 14:40 +0200
    Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 14:50 +0200
      Re: Colemak layout at boot time Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-19 15:20 +0200
        Re: Colemak layout at boot time piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-09-19 21:00 +0200
          Re: Colemak layout at boot time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-19 22:10 +0200
          Re: Colemak layout at boot time Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-19 22:20 +0200

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