On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 18:17 +0200, Jocelyn Falempe wrote: > On 23/04/2025 18:01, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 11:43 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM Adam Williamson > > > <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 11:51 +0200, Jocelyn Falempe wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I've packaged 3 userspace consoles, on my copr repository for Fedora. > > > > > They can replace fbcon (The default kernel-based console), have more > > > > > features (like scrolling) and are more secure as they run in > > > > > userspace. > > > > > > > > > > * Kmscon: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jfalempe/kmscon/ > > > > > * Cage/foot or Gnome-kiosk/Ptyxis: > > > > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jfalempe/Userspacevt/ > > > > > > > > Do they use xkb keyboard layouts and configuration? Or kbd? > > > > > > The Wayland ones will use xkb. kmscon probably still uses kbd. > > > > then for the love of god can we switch to a wayland one yesterday? :P > > Kmscon uses xkbcommon, so probably xkb too. > > > > > (but on a serious level, how does configuring keyboard layout / input > > method work if all you have is a compositor and a terminal app? > > presumably read from a file...has the format and location been > > standardized?) > > systemd has the localectl command to do that, it also generates a file > /etc/vconsole.conf which has the keymap information.
Hmm, but this is still problematic. localectl can *set* both console (kbd) layouts and a xkb layouts, but AFAIK like it only ever writes a kbd layout name to /etc/vconsole.conf . It has a ridiculous lookup table for converting between the two on various operations - so it can try to set a 'matching' xkb configuration for whatever kbd layout is specified in vconsole.conf - but this is buggy and restricted. This whole mess is what I would like to kill. I would love to get to a situation where we *only* care about xkb layouts, and that's the config we write. > > When trying with Gnome-kiosk or Kwin, the layout is automatically > configured (I use dvorak, and it was already setup without any interaction). > For Kmscon, you need to edit the file /etc/kmscon.conf. > And for Cage + foot, I've done a workaround, to read the configuration > from /etc/vconsole.conf with [1], and export the XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT > variable. > I can probably do the same for kmscon, or read directly > /etc/vconsole.conf in kmscon. > > [1] > https://gitlab.com/kdj0c/userspacevt/-/blob/main/cagefootvt/usr/libexec/cagefootvt/wait_tty.sh?ref_type=heads#L11 I suspect if you try this on a Russian install, you will find you can't type any ASCII characters. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @ad...@fosstodon.org https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
