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Linux @lemmy.ml t0mri @lemmy.ml 6 mo. ago

Colemak-dh on linux

I cerrently on "colemak" layout and wanna switch to "colemak-dh" but dunno how to set it up. Im on arch + hyprland (wayland) setup.

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I have this in my hyprland.conf

input { kb_layout = us kb_variant = colemak_dh_iso kb_model = kb_options= kb_rules =

You list some other variants with grep -i 'colemak_dh' /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst, there are a few.
- Yo! Thanks a lot. It works.
  
  I tried "colemak-dh" instead of "colemak_dh", thats why it didnt work. My monkey brain didnt think of using underscore.
  
  I wanna set it up on login shell too. So i tried
  
  localectl set-keymap colemak_dh
  
  But it says Failed to set keymap: Keymap colemak_dh is not installed.
  
  I tried
  
  [tomri@arch ~]$ localectl list-keymaps | grep colemak colemak [tomri@arch ~]$
  
  Thanks in advance
  
  For the iso variant: localectl --no-convert set-keymap mod-dh-iso-us
  localectl set-x11-keymap us 105 colemak_dh_iso For the ansi variant, switch to 104 and edit iso to ansi
  
  Thanks. Just localectl set-keymap mod-dh-ansi-us works.
  
  Btw how did u find the name . Coz I couldnt find any ref online.
  
  Thanks again
  
  Oh and fyi you'll probably need the second command too if you ever use x11, iirc set-keymap doesn't convert properly so you need to set it manually localectl set-x11-keymap us 104 colemak_dh
  
  Oh ok. Follow experts advice.
  
  Btw if ever find related article, could pls pass ghat here
  
  Yeah i don't think i had an article, just some redhat documentation and the regular localectl help page, and a couple of hours.
  
  Probably duckduckgo, it was a while back.

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