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Custom keyboard layout not showing in Settings

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1598 / 3 Years ago, fri, june 25, 2021, 6:55:43

I am trying to create a new keyboard layout where two keys are inverted with each other.

This is what I have done:

Edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/se to add:

partial alphanumeric_keys

xkb_symbols "kinesis" {



    // Modifies the basic Swedish layout to place aring correctly



    include "latin(type2)"

    include "se(basic)"



    name[Group1]="Swedish (kinesis)";



    key <BKSL>  { [     aring,      Aring       ]   };

    key <AD11>  { [apostrophe,   asterisk,        acute,     multiply ] };



};

Edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst to add to the section ! variant:

kinesis         se: Swedish (kinesis)

Restarted X.

This mentions something about rules/evdev.html, which I do not have (Ubuntu 14.04). It mentions also "adding the file", but I did not create any new file, only completed the existing symbols/se. I also tried to clear /var/lib/xkb from *.xkm, no difference.

How do I make this new variant of the layout to show up in my Settings->Text Entry?

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answered 3 Years ago ionodest · Accepted Answer

I think you have to add the entry also to the file evedev.xml, something on the line of:

    <variant>

      <configItem>

        <name>kinesis</name>

        <description>My special kinesis</description>

      </configItem>

    </variant>

Near where the other variants for the se layouts are defined.

...and/or modify the correspondent base.xml, base.lst files.

I really do not know exactly how it works, thanks to the quite sparse documentation, but I managed to have my Spanish variant working (tested in Xubuntu but should work in all DE... modulo bugs).

And yes, removing *.xkm files is needed too. And yes, the .xml file should be generated by the .lst file, but I am unable to find how.