Thanks Colin! Just upgraded to the latest grub2 and tried your suggestion out. It didn't work :( Here's what I did with one note that may help:
1. Upgrade to latest grub2 2. sudo mkdir -p /boot/grub/layouts 3. ckbcomp us dvorak | sudo grub-mklayout -o /boot/grub/layouts/us:dvorak.gkb NOTE: When I ran this command it spat back "Unknown keycode 0x79" at me, which I'm sure is the problem (just not sure how to find it). 4. sudo update-grub 5. sudo reboot I couldn't find good documentation in /usr/share/doc/grub*, nor in the man/info pages for grub-mklayout, nor on Google (and the grub wiki appears to be down) so I really have no clue what to do for a next step. Thanks, -Garrett On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:24:40PM -0700, Garrett McLean wrote: > > Please add support for setkey! Without it I am forced to use a QWERTY > layout > > if I want to edit menu entries in grub (pressing 'e' at the menu). This > is > > super annoying as a Dvorak user. > > It almost certainly isn't going to be backported to squeeze, but the > version in sid has grub-mklayout and grub-kbdcomp utilities. You can do > something like this (untested): > > sudo mkdir -p /boot/grub/layouts > ckbcomp us dvorak | sudo grub-mklayout -o /boot/grub/layouts/us:dvorak.gkb > > ... and then add this command to /boot/grub/custom.cfg: > > keymap us:dvorak > > Hopefully we'll get this a bit more neatly integrated in future. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] >
