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* Re: grub-mklayout - different input format?
@ 2011-06-13 16:36 Colin Watson
  2011-06-15 13:11 ` grub-mklayout - errors & unusable keyboard Treutwein Bernhard
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Colin Watson @ 2011-06-13 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The development of GNU GRUB; +Cc: help-grub

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:38:15PM +0200, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> here grub-keymap is a keymap generated by translating an X11 
> keyboard definition file with ckbcomp into a format 
> understood by grub-mklayout:
> 
> 	ckbcomp /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ch | grub-mklayout -o /boot/ch.gkb
> 
> Now, tinycore does neither have the X keyboard definition files nor the
> command ckbcomp. So I asked some time ago in the tinycore forum for help 
> and got the following reply (including my query): 
> http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=9730.msg52948#msg52948
> 
> Now I am a confused and I don't have any idea how to manage it.
> 
> Is the format understood by grub-mklayout the keymaps(5) format?

Yes, it is.

> The only documentation about grub-mklayout I was able to find 
> (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/grub-mklayout.1.html)
> does not say anything about the required input format.

I have committed improved text for future versions of the manual page,
adding the line:

  grub-mklayout processes a keyboard layout description in keymaps(5)
  format into a format that can be used by GRUB's keymap command.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]


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