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Old 01-01-2024, 05:57 AM   #1
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Colemak in ramdisk


I use LVM on LUKS for full disk encryption, so I have to type my password to decrypt the drive each time I boot the computer. Keyboard layout is QWERTY, but I want Colemak.

Colemak website provides .kmap file, but /usr/share/mkinitrd/keymaps.tar.gz consists of .bmap files. Can I use .kmap? If not, then how do I have Colemak in there?
 
Old 01-02-2024, 02:45 AM   #2
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Disclaimer: Not my area of expertise.

On my Slackware 15.0, I see an entry for /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/colemak/en-latin9.map.gz, but no corresponding entry in /usr/share/mkinitrd/keymaps.tar.gz (which is dated 18-Dec-2009 in the source for mkinitrd, so quite old).

Busybox has a utility dumpkmap that is available in /boot/initrd-tree/bin/.

Perhaps you could try loading a keymap for Colemak, then run something like:
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/boot/initrd-tree/bin/dumpkmap > /tmp/en-latin9.bmap
add the resulting file to /usr/share/mkinitrd/keymaps.tar.gz
and run mkinitrd with the -l option (thanks to Alien Bob!)
 
  


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