how to alter the keyboard layout?

[Andy B]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:43 AM hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2022-02-27 at 08:42 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> > hw posted on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 15:58:22 +0100 as excerpted:
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> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > how do I alter the keyboard layout for plasma on wayland sessions?
> > >
> > > I need to put Alt on the left menu key, a dot on the Delete key on the
> > > number pad (instead of a comma) and a slash on the '+' key (wich is
> > > right to the 'ü' key)?  I used to do that with an xmodmap,
> > > but of course that doesn't work anymore with wayland.
> > >
> > > There must be files somewhere that define all the various keyboard
> > > layouts you can pick from, but where are they?  That kind of information
> > > must not be hidden from the users and should be shown in the settings
> > > ...
> >
> > Some of that can be configured in plasma's systemsettings, hardware, input
> > devices, keyboard, advanced.  (That's where it is on live-git plasma,
> > anyway, specific path may differ on old plasma.)
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> So how do I make the changes I described through that?  It doesn't seem
> possible at all.
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> > There's an expander for alt and win key behavior, and another for numeric
> > keypad delete behavior.  I expect they'll do what you need.
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> Like I said, I need an Alt key on the right side of the keyboard (space bar).
> There is nothing in the keyboard settings that would allow me to alter the
> keyboard layout except for pre-defined stuff which doesn't work for this and
> which I don't have access to because there is no way to know where this is
> defined.  Maybe it's hardcoded?
>
> > Beyond that, I've seen /hints/ that some of the X tools still work for
> > keyboard config, etc, and of course there's libinput's standardization
> > which is based on the older evdev.  But my knowledge is limited enough on
> > that that you can probably google it as efficiently as I could, so...
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> From what I've found, they probably don't work for wayland because they are
> for X.  Why can't we just change our keyboard layouts as we need to?  It could
> be so simple, but nowadays everything is made ridiculously complicated for no
> reason at all ...
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I wanted to recommend moving this conversation, maybe, to a live
channel instead. Here are some links that can help:

https://t.me/+UpSkIb5sDNG8l-TE
https://t.me/vdgmainroom

Thank you,

Andy


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Andy (anditosan)