In my distribution (Slackware 13.37), the console keyboard layout is chosen among some of those available in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
' sub directories, coming from the kbd package.
Under X instead the keyboard layout is chosen in a "layout" list included in the file /etc/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst
.
Does anybody knows a way to, given some console keyboard layout, map it to an X keyboard layout, in order to set up accordingly the "XkbLayout" option in an X configuration file?
I am specially interested in knowing the way other distributions than Slackware deal with this for initial configuration.
Best Answer
Well, how I understand it, in Debian, in
/etc/default/keyboard
you set the variablesXKB{MODEL,LAYOUT,VARIANT,OPTIONS}
with values you would use for XKB.Then, at bootup,
setupcon(1)
reads those variables and callsckbcomp(1)
, which, as its manpage says, “compile[s] a XKB keyboard description to a keymap suitable forloadkeys
orkbdcontrol
“.Finally,
loadkeys(1)
is called on the compiled file.HTH.
(Or maybe you meant the opposite. I'm not really sure now...)