No dvorak in window manager

No dvorak in window manager

[Luther Thompson]

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:

(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules desktop)
(use-package-modules certs gnome)

(operating-system
  (host-name "targaryen")
  (timezone "America/New_York")
  (locale "en_US.utf8")

  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                (bootloader grub-bootloader)
                (target "/dev/sda")))

  (file-systems (cons (file-system
                        (device "my-root")
                        (mount-point "/")
                        (type "ext4")
(title 'label))
                      %base-file-systems))

  (users (cons (user-account
                (name "luther")
                (comment "Luther Thompson")
                (group "users")
                (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
                                        "audio" "video"))
                (home-directory "/home/luther"))
               %base-user-accounts))

  ;; This is where we specify system-wide packages.
  (packages (cons* nss-certs         ;for HTTPS access
                   gvfs              ;for user mounts
                   %base-packages))

  ;; Add GNOME and/or Xfce---we can choose at the log-in
  ;; screen with F1.  Use the "desktop" services, which
  ;; include the X11 log-in service, networking with Wicd,
  ;; and more.
  (services (cons* (console-keymap-service "dvorak")
  (gnome-desktop-service)
                   (xfce-desktop-service)
                   %desktop-services))

  ;; Allow resolution of '.local' host names with mDNS.
  (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss)

  (swap-devices '("/swapfile")))

-- 
Luther Thompson

Re: No dvorak in window manager

[Joshua Branson]

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...  

Re: No dvorak in window manager

[Luther Thompson]

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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

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Re: No dvorak in window manager

[Nils Gillmann]

Luther Thompson transcribed 1.8K bytes:
> 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

That is because loadkeys is for the tty. In X you would use setxkbmap
or your WM/DM provided tools for setting it. setxkbmap comes as part
of the package 'setxkbmap' in guix.

For SDDM and SLIM the fact that it's just en_US is a bug in our
invocation of it (or upstream? I forgot, simply because I opened
a bug report long time ago not to think about reasons why this
happens).

> place. Here is my OS definition:
> 
> (use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
> (use-service-modules desktop)
> (use-package-modules certs gnome)
> 
> (operating-system
>   (host-name "targaryen")
>   (timezone "America/New_York")
>   (locale "en_US.utf8")
> 
>   (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>                 (bootloader grub-bootloader)
>                 (target "/dev/sda")))
> 
>   (file-systems (cons (file-system
>                         (device "my-root")
>                         (mount-point "/")
>                         (type "ext4")
> (title 'label))
>                       %base-file-systems))
> 
>   (users (cons (user-account
>                 (name "luther")
>                 (comment "Luther Thompson")
>                 (group "users")
>                 (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
>                                         "audio" "video"))
>                 (home-directory "/home/luther"))
>                %base-user-accounts))
> 
>   ;; This is where we specify system-wide packages.
>   (packages (cons* nss-certs         ;for HTTPS access
>                    gvfs              ;for user mounts
>                    %base-packages))
> 
>   ;; Add GNOME and/or Xfce---we can choose at the log-in
>   ;; screen with F1.  Use the "desktop" services, which
>   ;; include the X11 log-in service, networking with Wicd,
>   ;; and more.
>   (services (cons* (console-keymap-service "dvorak")
>   (gnome-desktop-service)
>                    (xfce-desktop-service)
>                    %desktop-services))
> 
>   ;; Allow resolution of '.local' host names with mDNS.
>   (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss)
> 
>   (swap-devices '("/swapfile")))
> 
> -- 
> Luther Thompson
>