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PostmarketOS sxmo pinephone keyboard keymaps? - afwtioane - 06-16-2022
How are you supposed to change your keymap? I found this
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?title=Sxmo/Tips_and_Tricks&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#How_to_change_the_keyboard_layouts.3F_.28wvkbd.2Fwayland.29.3F
..but it does not explain how to find out what any of these variables mean, or how to find the keymap syntax I am trying to use.
setxkbmap apparently isn't a thing on wayland and there doesn't seem to be any alternative.
I discovered setup-keymap just abusing autocomplete. Running it as root, I select colemak and it seems to work perfectly, no errors and its very promising. Until you try to type and nothing has changed.
I decided the only thing left was to recompile the pinephone-keyboard firmware. I made a hardware remapping to colemak and then while reading the flashing debricking instructions, decided it would probably be better to just ask in the forums before I destroy my equipment
The only thing I can think of left is kmonad but I would have to recompile it for ARM, and the instructions are frustrating me because there isn't anything called stack in the repos and I am hesitant to go through the process of porting an entirely different package manager just to compile whatever nix is, surely there is a simpler way but if not alright I just want to know for sure.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
RE: PostmarketOS sxmo pinephone keyboard keymaps? - afwtioane - 06-17-2022
AAaaa I pressed ctrl+r and don't know if my solution sent. While trying to figure out why as well the alternative keys like = and _ weren't working I found the solution to my colemak problem. The following fixes both of them.
~/.config/sxmo/sway
input "0:0
inePhone_Keyboard" {xkb_layout us
xkb_variant colemak
xkb_model ppkb
xkb_options lv3:ralt_switch
}
AltG or the right alt would be how you use = or _ etc. To find the layout and variant you can use setup-keymap, substituting the right option. Hope it helps
RE: PostmarketOS sxmo pinephone keyboard keymaps? - manubert - 09-11-2022
(06-17-2022, 12:40 AM)afwtioane Wrote: ~/.config/sxmo/sway
input "0:0
xkb_layout us
xkb_variant colemak
xkb_model ppkb
xkb_options lv3:ralt_switch
}
AltG or the right alt would be how you use = or _ etc. To find the layout and variant you can use setup-keymap, substituting the right option. Hope it helps
You are my hero! This is exactly what I wanted to achieve (minus the colemak part) but struggled with—I thought I had to flash a modified firmware >.<
Thank you so much for posting this!
(yes I registered here just to say thanks
)