Colemak-dh on linux

FiskFisk33 , 3 months ago

I have this in my hyprland.conf

<span style="color:#323232;">input {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    kb_layout = us
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    kb_variant = colemak_dh_iso
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    kb_model =
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    kb_options=
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    kb_rules =
</span>

You list some other variants with grep -i ‘colemak_dh’ /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst, there are a few.

t0mri OP , 3 months ago

Yo! Thanks a lot. It works.

I tried “colemak-dh” instead of “colemak_dh”, thats why it didnt work. My monkey brain didnt think of using underscore.

I wanna set it up on login shell too. So i tried

<span style="color:#323232;">localectl set-keymap  colemak_dh
</span>

But it says Failed to set keymap: Keymap colemak_dh is not installed.

I tried

<span style="color:#323232;">[tomri@arch ~]$ localectl list-keymaps </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep colemak
</span><span style="color:#323232;">colemak
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[tomri@arch ~]$
</span>

Thanks in advance

imecth , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

For the iso variant:
localectl --no-convert set-keymap mod-dh-iso-us
localectl set-x11-keymap us 105 colemak_dh_iso
For the ansi variant, switch to 104 and edit iso to ansi

t0mri OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Thanks. Just localectl set-keymap mod-dh-ansi-us works.

Btw how did u find the name . Coz I couldnt find any ref online.

Thanks again

imecth , 3 months ago

Probably duckduckgo, it was a while back.

imecth , 3 months ago

Oh and fyi you'll probably need the second command too if you ever use x11, iirc set-keymap doesn't convert properly so you need to set it manually
localectl set-x11-keymap us 104 colemak_dh

t0mri OP , 3 months ago

Oh ok. Follow experts advice.

Btw if ever find related article, could pls pass ghat here

imecth , 3 months ago

Yeah i don't think i had an article, just some redhat documentation and the regular localectl help page, and a couple of hours.