How to achieve Greek keyboard layout

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I would like to have some easy way to type Greek letters. The most appropriate solution is probably to use US keyboard layout with Greek letters on 3rd level, but I could not find any.

Do I have to create my custom layout? If yes, can you provide a tutorial link?

P.S. I am using Arch with Gnome

Thanks

Best Answer

If you only need it it Gnome, follow this Arch Wiki article https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_Xorg#Switching_between_keyboard_layouts

If you need it in the terminal as well see this one as well https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_console

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I often switch between English and Greek layouts and this has been a minor annoyance for a while. Your question pushed me to solve it, so thanks!

I found a program that can do this: xbindkeys. The proceedure I followed (adapted from here) was:

Install xbindkeys. On my Debian this is done with
```
 sudo apt-get install xbindkeys
```

You should also be able to install easily enough with the equivalent yum install or pacman -S or whatever commands.

Create the default settings file:
```
 xbindkeys --defaults > ~/.xbindkeysrc
```
Get the right keycodes for your keys. Run xbindkeys -k and press your desired shortcut. With my keyboard at least (though this should be standard), xbindkeys -k reports that CtrlT is
```
 m:0x14 + c:28
 Control+Mod2 + t
```
Create the relevant shortcut, add these lines to ~/.xbindkeysrc:
```
 "xterm"
  m:0x14 + c:28
```
Run xbindkeys. The shortcut now works even in the Greek layout. To make this permanent, add this to your ~/.Xsession:
```
 xbindkeys
```

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You could do this with by configuring your keyboards separately. For example I use US English layout on my laptop keyboard and have a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard with german layout and I have the following in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf:

# Default configuration for all keyboards not handled explicitly
Section "InputClass"
     Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
     MatchIsKeyboard "on"
     MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
     Driver "evdev"

     Option "XkbRules"   "evdev"
     Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
     Option "XkbLayout"  "us(altgr-intl),de,ru"
     Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:menu_switch,caps:hyper,compose:ralt,grp:rctrl_rshift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

# Match the external keyboard by USB ID
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Sun Type 6"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
    MatchUSBID "0430:0005"

    Driver "evdev"
    Option "XkbRules"   "evdev"
    Option "XkbModel"   "sun(type6)"
    Option "XkbLayout"  "de"
    Option "XkbOptions" "caps:hyper,compose:menu,terminalte:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

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