[systemd-devel] What is the recommended way to setup the compose key ?

Francis Moreau francis.moro at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 08:54:34 UTC 2017


On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out how I can configure a compose key for the
>> consoles.
>>
>> I looked at man localectl and vconsole.conf but haven't found an answer.
>
>
> You'd need to edit the actual keyboard layout in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps. See
> i386/include/compose.inc and i386/qwerty/{cz,lv}.map.gz for examples.

Do you mean I need to edit my preferred map in /usr/share to include
compose.inc ?

If so I don't think I'm supposed to change any files in /usr/share/kbd...

Wouldn't it be simpler to add the compose key in vconsole.conf so it's
loaded automatically ?

-- 
Francis


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