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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: 40273@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 08:24:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200402062408.zrapcqfguenlcu5b@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200401203318.GA6142@LionPure>

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:33:18PM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote:
> I don't know if this is useful, but seems like you can affect things
> early in the boot sequence (from the man page):
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>        Note that the kernel command line options vconsole.keymap=,
>        vconsole.keymap_toggle=, vconsole.font=, vconsole.font_map=,
>        console.font_unimap= may be used to override the console settings at
>        boot.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thank you for the suggestion.  With vconsole.keymap_toggle in QEMU I
do not know what key to press in order to toggle.  Right Alt key or
Alt+Shift does not work, so I believe the vconsole kernel parameter is
not used without installing the 90-vconsole.rules udev rules file from
systemd.  The rules file runs a program systemd-vconsole-setup it
seems which uses KDFONTOP ioctl:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/vconsole/vconsole-setup.c


I would prefer a toggle keymap that is set to "us" or "fr" or whatever
at runtime.  I believe this would be easiest by patching kmscon to not
only accept a layout (like now) but also a (not necessarily
hard-coded) option grp:alt_shift_toggle or grp:toggle (for right Alt
key, if the keyboard has one) or similar.  But "us" QWERTY as a fixed
toggle keymap would help too of course.


> > What do you think is the right path forward?
> Do the right thing
> :)

I hope someone who knows the codebase and what to put where made a
patch.  I should have said so.

Regards,
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-02  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-28 13:42 bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-28 19:45 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 10:44   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-30 11:35     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 17:11       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-30 17:31         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-31 15:35         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-31 16:55           ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-01 20:33             ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-02  6:24               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2020-04-02  9:45             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-03  0:38               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03  1:11                 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 13:31                 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 13:59                 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 15:20                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-03 15:56                   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-05 14:03                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-05 20:02                       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-05 21:26                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-29 15:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-29 17:16   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-29 17:53     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 10:39       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 12:39         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-31 15:29         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-01 12:49           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-31 15:28       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-01 12:52         ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-02 10:25           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-02 11:40             ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-06  7:52               ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-06 13:14                 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-07  9:49                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-07 17:14                     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-02 23:27             ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-03 23:17               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-08  7:20                 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-08  9:42                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-08 21:11                     ` Bengt Richter

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