[Example] Starter keyboard setup demo

[GrabbenD]

I've put together some pointers that helped me get xkb/keyboard (Swedish) setup working on Arch Linux. Hopefully this helps someone else in the future 🙂

• Grab xkeyboard-config package to create /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols (see: $ pkgconf xkeyboard-config --variable=xkb_base):

  • If they're still missing (e.g. after making sure there's no bogus NoExtract in /etc/pacman.conf), it's possible to re-create the symbols with $ paru --sync --overwrite="*" xkeyboard-config

  • Reference: Error parsing keymap #368 (comment)

• You can generate a xkb_keymap via setxkbmap, e.g:

  $ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout se -variant nodeadkeys; setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
  
  xkb_keymap {
    xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"         };
    xkb_types    { include "complete"                      };
    xkb_compat   { include "complete"                      };
    xkb_symbols  { include "pc+se(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)" };
    xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)"                     };
  };

• keymap can be tested with kbvm:

  • $ kbvm test-wayland
  • $ kbvm compile-rmlvo --layout se | kbvm test-wayland --keymap -

• Helpful commands can be found in the Arch Linux documentation for xkeyboard-config:

  • https://man.archlinux.org/man/xkeyboard-config.7
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration

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I've also shared my config.toml file here for anyone still struggling with getting started: #411

Last but not least, massive thanks to @mahkoh once again for taking the time to build this wonderful compositor!

Take care