On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including > > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833 > > > which uses dvorak as an example. > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > Yes I seen this page. > > > > ckbcomp dvorak command outputs the layout details and everything. > > > > However: > > $ ckbcomp colemak > > /usr/bin/ckbcomp: Can not find file "symbols/colemak" in any known directory > > > > > > > > I don't recall the definition of "boot time password". Does this > > > denote something that Grub asks, or is it when dmcrypt is running > > > from the initrd? > > > > By that I meant GRUB editor and Debian's standard whole disk encryption > > in Debian. I don't have Colemak there. I need to enter password in > > Colemak. Yes, I think that's called dmcrypt. > > > > > Which is a reminder: is your keyboard definition > > > in /etc/default/keyboard getting incorporated into the initrd or not? > > > > I don't know that. I only have Colemak in KDE. Everything else, > > including virtual terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F keys) are Qwerty. > > How do you normally login, at a VC or in a Display Manager? > > Where did you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" from? >
> Have you seen this line: > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 > since you changed /etc/default/keyboard and ran > sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration? I replied just now before seeing this. I think I may have taken the "GRUB uses the US keyboard layout by default" in my link a bit too far! > > Checking your current initrd is a little tedious: you run > unmkinitramfs to unpack the initrd, and you zcat your > /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz to, say, /tmp. > Then run, eg: > > $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap > /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap > $ > > where they are the unpacked and decompressed files respectively. > > Cheers, > David. > >
