On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> wrote:
> Luther Thompson <lutheroto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I installed GuixSD today. When I boot up, both the login manager and
>> the desktop session use qwerty. I do see dvorak when I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2
>> for a non-window console. `loadkeys dvorak` has no effect in either
>> place. Here is my OS definition:
>>
>
> I've had a similar problem. I know that there are a couple of solutions
> floating around. I think one of them my be using setxkbmap...Or
> possibly configuring X to prefer the dvorak layout...
>
> I personally never figured that issue out. Right now I'm running
> Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, and I've got guix installed on it...
>

Update: I decided to check the latest git master commit to see if the

docs had changed. I found some

​thing about controlling ​the keyboard

layout, and I found more examples in the guix-help archives. This is

​the 'services' ​field that I ended up using:

(services (cons* (console-keymap-service "dvorak")

(gnome-desktop-service)

(xfce-desktop-service)

(modify-services %desktop-services

(slim-service-type config =>

(slim-configuration

​      ​

(inherit config)

​      ​

(​

startx (xorg-start-command

​       ​

#:configuration-file

​       ​

(xorg-configuration-file

​       ​

#:extra-config

'("Section \"InputClass\"

Identifier \"keyboard-all\"

Option \"XkbLayout\" \"dvorak\"

MatchIsKeyboard \"on\"

EndSection")))))))))

​This successfully fixed the problem in the ​login manager. (GNOME, of

course, had to be configured separately.)

--
Luther Thompson