Oh, bugger. So it’s not as easy as editing a qml file to make an alternate English layout then? What’s involved in making a new layout and rebuilding xkeyboard-config?
For bépo i made a package on openrepos:
https://openrepos.net/content/julienblanc/french-bepo-layout
It works fine even with latest 5.0 releases.
Oh, bugger. So it’s not as easy as editing a qml file to make an alternate English layout then? What’s involved in making a new layout and rebuilding xkeyboard-config?
Yea, not that simple. For how to build a new layout you should be looking into xkeyboard-config contents and documentation: GitHub - sailfishos/xkeyboard-config
FWIW we are setting they keymap to with: rules: evdev, model: jollasbj, layout: per the setting e.g. “us”, variant and options empty.
Could I ask what kind of layout do you have in mind?
Thanks - I’ll have a look down that rabbit hole after Christmas.
Personally I’m after a Colemak layout.
Ah, then you’re in luck. There’s already a variant in xkeyboard-config.
Should get that working by doing as user
dconf write /desktop/lipstick-jolla-home/variant \“colemak\”
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Legend! Thanks for that! Typing to you now on a hardware keyboad with the colemak layout.
That was a lot easier than I’d expected.
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