hw <h...@adminart.net> writes: > On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 18:23 +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> On 4 Feb 2024 12:08 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann): >> > xmodmap trickery? I am running GNOME on Wayland. >> >> Or whatever the equivalent in Wayland (or GNOME) might be. Either way, >> surely there must be _some_ way to map (sets of) keyboard scan codes >> to symbols or actions, and that way is almost certainly reconfigurable >> because otherwise everyone would be stuck with the exact same keyboard >> layout, which would make for a rather poor internationalization/ >> localization experience. > > We are stuck with it :( Last time I checked, KDE isn't any better. > > With xmodmap, I was able to adjust the layout as needed. With > wayland, I can't do that anymore and I'm stuck with an US layout --- > which my keyboard fortunately physically has --- because some keys on > German keyboards are so badly placed and configured that I need to be > able to change the layout if want to use a German keyboard with a > German layout.
Maybe I have misunderstood the problem, but I use Gnome with Wayland and regularly switch between US and German layouts. I just added the German layout in the 'Keyboard' section of Gnome's Settings and switch with the default shortcut of 'Super + space'. > It's one of these basic things we shouldn't need to have any trouble > at all with, and it really pisses me off. > > All the developers are proabably Americans and never come across this > problem. Why else won't they let us change the keyobard layout as we > need to. -- This signature is currently under constuction.
