Re: Latam keyboard layout changed, how can I get the old one back?

[Luis Felipe]

Hi, Florian,

On Thursday, April 7th, 2022 at 9:50 AM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) 
<pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 10:00:55PM +0000, Luis Felipe wrote:
> 

> > I'm currently using Guix System (guix ab98b51), and noticed that I
> > can't type less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs anymore, even
> > though I didn't change the keyboard-layout in my system definition
> > (or anywhere else):
> 

> 

> Perhaps a bug in xkeyboard-config, but there are no recent commits
> changing xkeyboard-config. If so, the virtual Linux console
> (Ctrl+Alt+F2 etc.) should be affected too. Is it? 


Yes, I get the same behavior in that console.

> Except you could try a commit before and after bcfff754? But I
> don’t see relevant changes in
> 

> less /gnu/store/-xkeyboard-config/share/X11/xkb/symbols/latam

If I understand correctly, bcfff754 occurred inbetween generations 75 and 76 of 
my system:

Generation 75   Sep 13 2021 17:51:59
  file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-75-link
  canonical file name: /gnu/store/fpxad4s3iwixqsdcrf47pblh7r5znrdh-system
  label: GNU with Linux-Libre 5.13.15
  bootloader: grub-efi
  root device: UUID: 3f651226-f53e-4944-8bf8-a0b8c28cfac5
  kernel: 
/gnu/store/y9r7physjpa23znb7r6rg38wpmxrkp0s-linux-libre-5.13.15/bzImage
  channels:
    guix:
      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
      branch: master
      commit: 13c3fcb3ed2f7c68dfd473479b26929046a97075
  configuration file: 
/gnu/store/y83wr1m9qcfzgahzrcny68yc76cd1sbg-configuration.scm
Generation 76   Dec 16 2021 12:37:52
  file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-76-link
  canonical file name: /gnu/store/lr06hmhrc5g1574dpdpgpmxh8lda6ri7-system
  label: GNU with Linux-Libre 5.15.7
  bootloader: grub-efi
  root device: UUID: 3f651226-f53e-4944-8bf8-a0b8c28cfac5
  kernel: /gnu/store/8vss0dkfda6rsjdx58bh2fp6nn4zvi5x-linux-libre-5.15.7/bzImage
  channels:
    guix:
      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
      branch: master
      commit: 94836b215630ad0f4a7c06b8e4284d923ac1197f
  configuration file: 
/gnu/store/64rz9n8hd1np1aljjiwvy2347abjv04w-configuration.scm

but I could type these signs normally during that period.

The last generation were things worked fine for me was

Generation 80   Feb 07 2022 11:06:06
  file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-80-link
  canonical file name: /gnu/store/75zlnfl5qmap83csa0jgm5iwdxdpzjgm-system
  label: GNU with Linux-Libre 5.15.19
  bootloader: grub-efi
  root device: UUID: 3f651226-f53e-4944-8bf8-a0b8c28cfac5
  kernel: 
/gnu/store/8w9v4dka10cv0r5fyw9f0pc14fszbl03-linux-libre-5.15.19/bzImage
  channels:
    guix:
      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
      branch: master
      commit: 579e9e9509f45fdc8543323b3c9f662b53dbfc6d
  configuration file: 
/gnu/store/64rz9n8hd1np1aljjiwvy2347abjv04w-configuration.scm


> Xorg is using xf86-input-libinput now (guix commit 2e55a4c6b915), but
> that cannot be at fault, because ab98b51ef is older … I see no other
> changes to Xorg in recent commits.

Hmm, thanks for taking a look, FLorian :)

I'll read more about xkeyboard-config.

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