Adding custom X Keyboard layout definitions

Adding custom X Keyboard layout definitions

[elaexuotee]

Hey Guix,

Is there a mechanism for adding custom X Keyboard definitions that will get
picked up by setxkbmap and friends?

I have a package that offers a layout, but simply throwing it under
share/X11/xkb/symbols/ is mostly useless since setxkbmap is built with the
xkeyboard-config path hard-coded in.

Cheers,
B. Wilson

Re: Adding custom X Keyboard layout definitions

[Felix Lechner]

Hi,

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 7:44 PM <elaexuotee@wilsonb.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a mechanism for adding custom X Keyboard definitions

I have the same question, although perhaps more for the XKB folks at
the X consortium. In Guix, I may create a personal version of the
package that provides the symbols, and add the ones I use.

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner

Re: Adding custom X Keyboard layout definitions

[Attila Lendvai]

> Is there a mechanism for adding custom X Keyboard definitions that will get
> picked up by setxkbmap and friends?


it's possible by now to put the files under your ~/.config/xkb/ (or straight out symlink to a dir in your favourite config repo)

i've recently packaged a tool called xkblayout that generates the necessary template files for a new layout. if you use that tool, then your new layout will even show up in gnome settings.

further details:

https://who-t.blogspot.com/search/label/xkb
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2020/09/user-specific-xkb-configuration-putting.html

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