On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Francis Moreau <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Francis Moreau <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to figure out how I can configure a compose key for the
> >> consoles.
> >>
> >> I looked at man localectl and vconsole.conf but haven't found an answer.
> >
> >
> > You'd need to edit the actual keyboard layout in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.
> See
> > i386/include/compose.inc and i386/qwerty/{cz,lv}.map.gz for examples.
>
> Do you mean I need to edit my preferred map in /usr/share to include
> compose.inc ?
>

You will need more than that – grep the other examples for 'compose'.


> If so I don't think I'm supposed to change any files in /usr/share/kbd...
>

Probably not, but that's the only location keymaps are loaded from (whether
you use systemd or regular loadkeys).


> Wouldn't it be simpler to add the compose key in vconsole.conf so it's
> loaded automatically ?
>

And where would it get the actual compose definitions from? They have to be
defined in the keymap itself.

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <[email protected]>
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