On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833 > > which uses dvorak as an example. > > Thanks for your reply. > Yes I seen this page. > > ckbcomp dvorak command outputs the layout details and everything. > > However: > $ ckbcomp colemak > /usr/bin/ckbcomp: Can not find file "symbols/colemak" in any known directory > > > > > I don't recall the definition of "boot time password". Does this > > denote something that Grub asks, or is it when dmcrypt is running > > from the initrd? > > By that I meant GRUB editor and Debian's standard whole disk encryption > in Debian. I don't have Colemak there. I need to enter password in > Colemak. Yes, I think that's called dmcrypt. > > > Which is a reminder: is your keyboard definition > > in /etc/default/keyboard getting incorporated into the initrd or not? > > I don't know that. I only have Colemak in KDE. Everything else, > including virtual terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F keys) are Qwerty.
How do you normally login, at a VC or in a Display Manager? Where did you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" from? Have you seen this line: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 since you changed /etc/default/keyboard and ran sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration? Checking your current initrd is a little tedious: you run unmkinitramfs to unpack the initrd, and you zcat your /etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap.gz to, say, /tmp. Then run, eg: $ diff -u …/main/etc/console-setup/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap /tmp/cached_UTF-8_del.kmap $ where they are the unpacked and decompressed files respectively. Cheers, David.
