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For Linux users without privileges, advise to use xkbcomp tool #83
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I agree we should have a “portable” Linux layout, as we now have a portable Windows one (PKL). There’s no such issue on OSX, as any keyboard layout can be installed either in user-space or system-wide. My main worry is that the If we publish an |
Lot of warnings are shown, but don't cause any problem for me and at least for French and English. Could you confirm again @GuillaumeSeren (see #73 ) ? As you said « It's just a warning », could you confirm it? I use only this way, every day since many year to change my layout and it works very well. It works well even on Unity Desktop at the University. Media keys works perfectly with The only problem is with Wayland, as it doesn't support to customize the keyboard layout without privileges and will never support it for security reason. They say that it's the job of the the client (i.e. the Desktop Manager) to do that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406829 .or https://askubuntu.com/questions/991742/modifying-keyboard-layout-in-wayland ) |
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@GuillaumeSeren thanks to confirm it ;-) So cool ! I use the old command $ xkbcomp -w9 /opt/lafayette_linux_v0.6.xkb $DISPLAY As it even on a computer without Python 3 installed, we could use Lafayette very easy ! Actually I use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fabi1cazenave/qwerty-lafayette/master/releases/lafayette_linux_v0.6.xkb |
I see this issue has not been updated since 2019. I never had to go into keyboard mapping until I tried (and adopted) lafayette, and I was mentally fine until then. I work with a rootless linux environment (Rocky 8.5). I blindly tried tried a lot of combination from this thread and from xkb web page, the only working setup is from @julio, with a lot of warning. At a first glance, it seems to work.
Would it be possible to publish a .xkb file for the last 0.6.1. Or to highlight a safer method? Futhermore, I would like to keep it userland, because in the next month I think I will adapt the mapping a bit for me. |
Not the latest version but still: https://github.com/maggick/dotfiles/blob/master/lafayette.xkb |
In my understanding, xkbcomp will only work on Xorg environments… so it feels like it’s doomed. Is there still a use case for a version that requires non-root privileges on non-Wayland systems? |
I totally missed that, but it looks like there’s a non-privileged option nowadays: https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/md_doc_user_configuration.html If that works, the installer could be modified to store the layout either in |
I confirm that my custom-layout has been living inside |
@Delapouite your help would be appreciated here. ;-) I’ve copied the relevant parts of Is there a |
Hi !
On https://qwerty-lafayette.org/#_lafayette , For Linux users who have not root privileges, it could be cool to advise to use the
xkbcomps
tool. For Wayland users, it could cause problems but often in computers without privileges right it's still the X-Org server who is installed (at least at my university).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: