On Sun 19 Sep 2021 at 09:38:26 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 19/09/2021 05:49, David Wright 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? > > I login to KDE login screen. Actually I have clean Debian 11 with KDE. > No modifications to system.
I forgot to ask one more question: is your /boot encrypted, or just everything else? Very relevant to the comment you added to this post. > > Where did you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" from? > > I run it from Konsole. My understanding is that when you switch to a console from a DE, spme (mumbling) is done, and this is reversed when you switch back again. This might be why your changes aren't persisting. When I configure the keyboard and console-setup, I always do it before I start X, so I can use my 1988 British IBM clicky keyboard to login. However, I've made no attempt to configure Grub, as I know about the odd punctuation keys that are swapped about with US/GB. > > 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? > > No. sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration asked questions, and > didn't generated any output in terminal. I actually run this command > several times now, with reboots, and no change. in > keyboard-configuration menu itself, Colemak is selected, > /etc/default/keyboard file also is all correct, but I don't have Colemak > at dm-crypt password time, nor in virtual consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F keys). Then I would rebuild my initramfs with update-initramfs. > > 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. > > Unpacked: > unmkinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) initramfs/ > > > Then run, eg: > > > > $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap > > /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap > > ~/initramfs/main/etc$ ls > default fonts fstab ld.so.cache ld.so.conf ld.so.conf.d lvm mdadm > modprobe.d mtab nsswitch.conf os-release passwd plymouth udev > > There is no console-setup folder in unpacked initramfs folder. > > $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap > /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap > diff: …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap: No such file or > directory > diff: /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap: No such file or directory > > $ apt-file search cached_UTF-8_del.kmap > (no results here) After update-initramfs, you should get console-setup in your initramfs. Cheers, David.
