On 5 Feb 2024 21:06 +0100, from h...@adminart.net (hw): > Picking from/adding a bunch of available keyboard layouts is an > entirely obsolete feature. I never need that. I only need to be able > to change the keyboard layout after picking one once in the installer. > > In case I switch to a different keyboard which I might do every so > many years when I feel like doing that, I also need to change it for > the console in the first place. How that is done changes like all the > time, and when it's not right, the keyboard won't work right, > especially in that the function keys to switch between consoles don't > work[1]. So that's a big issue right there --- and then I need to be > able to change the keyboard layout in wayland sessions unless I use an > US keyboard. But I only have one of those.
Pretty sure /etc/default/keyboard has been a thing on Debian for just about forever. I haven't dug into the details but it seems to date back to 2006 which would put its first appearance at circa Sarge or Etch (3.1/mid-2005 or 4.0/early-2007 respectively); possibly even earlier, but that's as far back as the console-setup package history goes. The one on my Bookworm system even has a comment right there on how to use an entirely custom keymap, and that's also mentioned in the keyboard(5) man page. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
