Feature changed by: Stefan Dirsch (sndirsch) Feature #318355, revision 3 Title: Convert X keyboard layouts to console keymaps openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In systemd world we use localectl. Mapping between console and X keyboards is complicated. I creates bugs (e.g. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897803) after switching from legacy /etc/X11/xdm/Keyboard.map mapping in to new systemd /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map mapping. Indeed most console keyboards are obsolete, they are difficult to configure, as each layout requires specific correct parameters for kbd_mode and setfont. And YaST also have some additional mapping: /usr/share/YaST2/data/keyboard_raw.ycp. We must change essentially keyboard management in YaST. We could use Fedora solution by converting X keymaps to console keymaps to simplify keyboard issues. Use Case: As discussed in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88545, Fedora has many more console layouts, converted from X keyboard layouts with script: # Convert X keyboard layouts to console keymaps mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb perl xml2lst.pl < /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml > layouts-variants.lst while read line; do XKBLAYOUT=`echo "$line" | cut -d " " -f 1` echo "$XKBLAYOUT"
layouts-list.lst XKBVARIANT=`echo "$line" | cut -d " " -f 2` ckbcomp "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT" | gzip > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/"$XKBLAYOUT"-"$XKBVARIANT".map.gz done < layouts-variants.lst # Convert X keyboard layouts (plain, no variant) cat layouts-list.lst | sort -u >> layouts-list-uniq.lst while read line; do ckbcomp "$line" | gzip > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/"$line".map.gz done < layouts-list- uniq.lst Full spec file: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/kbd/sources/spec/ Fedora moved upstream layouts to /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/ .
+ Discussion: + #1: Stefan Dirsch (sndirsch) (2015-07-21 15:20:21) + Finally I found the time to work on this. :-) Current result you can + find in obs://home:sndirsch:fate318355. I've created a console-setup + package, since SUSE was still lacking the ckbcomp tool to convert + xkeyboard-layout keymaps to console keymaps. I've adjusted kbd package + to convert xkeyboard-layout keymaps to console keymaps, which makes use + of this tool. Original kbd keymaps I've moved to legacy directory and + now they are last in loadkeys' search path, i.e. xkb converted ones are + preferred. Also in kbd package I've created additional entries for + systemd's mapping console keymap <-> X keymap. In systemd package I + append these entries to systemd's /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map + table. What's still missing are the adjustments in YaST. Do we want to + adjust YaST in a way so the existing console keymaps are replaced with + the converted xkb keymaps? Or do we want to add new entries to the YaST + list and still use the old legacy keymaps for the current list? Or + maybe both? I'm not sure here. Seems there are 3 files, which need + adjustments. lang2keyboard.ycp, xkblayout2keyboard.ycp, keyboard_raw. + ycp in /usr/share/YaST2/data. Not sure how these are connected togehter + exactly. I would like to see a proposal here preferrably by the YaST + developer(s). Mapping table console keyboard <-> X keyboard is now + available in systemd's /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map. Everything + YaST specific can now be based on that information. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318355