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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: neo tty layout
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:21:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpjj723x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oa4vra5e.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> (ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is's message of "Sun, 14 Aug 2016 09:07:41 +0000")

ng0 (2016-08-14 12:07 +0300) wrote:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 04:15:15PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I just installed NixOS on another system and noticed they offer neo
>>> layout not only in X11 but also for tty. Would it be okay to replicate
>>> this for Guix? I'll be looking into this soon for me personally, but
>>> maybe others can benefit from it by including it in Guix.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not sure what the neo layout is. Is it a keyboard layout?
>
> Yes, it can be loaded in X11 in all system distributions and operating
> systems I know, but that it can be loaded for tty is rare. Most system
> for tty are limited to qwert{y,z} and some layouts where neo draws
> inspiration from.
> It's a layout specific to german keyboards and language but extends to
> other areas (scientic etc): http://neo-layout.org/index_en.html
> It can be loaded with `setxkbmap neo` or the desktop environment
> specific tool of it.
> I just need to figure out what nix patches or adds to make it available
> with `loadkeys neo` outside of X11.

If I undrestand it right from
<https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kbd/default.nix>,
they just download "neo.map" file and put it into appropirate dir of
'kbd' package.

See also
<http://wiki.neo-layout.org/wiki/Neo%20unter%20Linux%20einrichten/Konsole>

-- 
Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-14 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-13 16:15 neo tty layout ng0
2016-08-13 23:13 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-14  9:07   ` ng0
2016-08-14 16:21     ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-08-14 17:36       ` ng0
2016-08-14 13:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-15 11:37 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-08-29 14:13   ` ng0
2016-09-05 13:40     ` Hartmut Goebel

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