How to change the USB keyboard layout in an OpenBSD console

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_{I may be abusing the word console but I mean the mode without X i.e. pressing ^+Alt F1 and then log as other user where I want to use my chosen layout with USB keyboard.}

X works, it configures the new USB keyboard to my choice when I plug it in. But the console keyboard layout is stuck to the setting specified by the kernel. I am trying to change that:

# usbhidctl -f /dev/uhid0 -w keyboard.encoding=us                                       
usbhidctl: Failed to match: keyboard.encoding

Some info about the OpenBSD version:

# uname -rv
4.7 GENERIC.MP#449

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Does

wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=us

work?

If yes, put that in /etc/wsconsctl.conf to make it persistent.

Or are you saying that that would only work for PS/2 keyboards? Maybe enabling USB legacy keyboard mode in the BIOS would help in that case?

wsconscfg -k

may also be of use.

Perhaps you need to change the device from

/dev/uhid0

to something like

/dev/wskbd0

/dev/wskbd1

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Try:

# loadkeys us

From a terminal, it does not make sense to run this over ssh as the keyboard you use over ssh is the local one and the ssh client sends the keys after they have already been interpreted according to your local keymap. And it won't even work if you try.

You can find all the available console keymaps in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.

How to map a console keyboard layout to a X keyboard layout in Linux

Well, how I understand it, in Debian, in /etc/default/keyboard you set the variables XKB{MODEL,LAYOUT,VARIANT,OPTIONS} with values you would use for XKB.

Then, at bootup, setupcon(1) reads those variables and calls ckbcomp(1), which, as its manpage says, “compile[s] a XKB keyboard description to a keymap suitable for loadkeys or kbdcontrol“.

Finally, loadkeys(1) is called on the compiled file.

HTH.

(Or maybe you meant the opposite. I'm not really sure now...)

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