Two keyboard layouts with toggle in console

Two keyboard layouts with toggle in console

[Kurshakov Dmitriy]

Hi.

Is it possible to write an operating system configuration having two different keyboard layouts (in my case -- "us" and "ru") with toggle (preferely by Caps Lock) for console?
For now, I have /etc/config.scm with: (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us" "altgr-intl")) under "operating-system" declaration. Every time after logging into shell, I need to run "loadkeys ruwin_cplk-UTF-8" command. After that, I have two different layouts and can swith between tem by Caps Lock. When I changed keyboard-layout to "ru" in config.scm there was no english layout at all.
How can I solve the problen in "right" (or "reproducible") way?

WBR, Dmitry.

Re: Two keyboard layouts with toggle in console

[Alexei Drozdov]

Manual proposes to do it at runtime:

We’ve discussed how to specify the default keyboard layout of your system
when it starts, but you can also adjust it at run time:
 If you’re using GNOME, its settings panel has a “Region & Language” entry
where you can select one or more keyboard layouts.
 Under Xorg, the setxkbmap command (from the same-named package) allows you
to change the current layout. For example, this is how you would change the
layout to US Dvorak:
 setxkbmap us dvorak
 The loadkeys command changes the keyboard layout in effect in the Linux
console. However, note that loadkeys does not use the XKB keyboard layout
categorization described above. The command below loads the French bépo
layout:
 loadkeys fr-bepo

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Keyboard-Layout

вс, 5 янв. 2020 г. в 22:02, Kurshakov Dmitriy <kurshakov-d@yandex.ru>:

> Hi.
>
> Is it possible to write an operating system configuration having two
> different keyboard layouts (in my case -- "us" and "ru") with toggle
> (preferely by Caps Lock) for console?
> For now, I have /etc/config.scm with: (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout
> "us" "altgr-intl")) under "operating-system" declaration. Every time after
> logging into shell, I need to run "loadkeys ruwin_cplk-UTF-8" command.
> After that, I have two different layouts and can swith between tem by Caps
> Lock. When I changed keyboard-layout to "ru" in config.scm there was no
> english layout at all.
> How can I solve the problen in "right" (or "reproducible") way?
>
> WBR, Dmitry.
>
>

Re: Two keyboard layouts with toggle in console

[Wiktor Żelazny]

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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:50:45PM +0300, Alexei Drozdov wrote:

> Manual proposes to do it at runtime:

From my config.scm:

  (services (cons* (service slim-service-type
                     (slim-configuration
                       (xorg-configuration
                         (xorg-configuration
                           (keyboard-layout
                             (keyboard-layout "pl,cz"
                                              "legacy,ucw"
                                              #:options '("compose:menu,grp:caps_switch")))))))
                   ;; other stuff
                   ))

But it works only in xorg. May be of use for you if you don’t mean the
text-mode console.

WŻ

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