No swedish keyboard layout

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Jon Lachmann

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I noted that there is no swedish keyboard layout available in proxmox, and this causes problem since the default username of windows in swedish is Administratör with an ö.

I am unable to type this in into the console, and therefore i cannot login. Is it possible to manually add a keyboard layout? If you have to add it into the build i would be glad to help test that it works.

Best regards
 
Nope, it doesnt change at all. When selecting the swedish keyboard layout in the virtual machine i can get an ä while pressing the ' key (next to ä). If i choose the english keymap in the virtual machine i can type chars like +'- and they are correct as per my swedish keyboard.
 
dietmar said:
You need to stop the VM, then re-start the VM to activate those settings. Does that help?
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It sure does help! Now i get åäö and am able to login... Although i am missing a few special chars like |<>'*^¨~´` but it is a great improvement.

Is it possible to add a swedish layout?

Thank you for your help!
 
Jon Lachmann said:
What work is neccesary? I could do it if it isnt too complicated (i know some coding etc..).
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I would first ask on the qemu developer list (http://wiki.qemu.org/MailingLists) if someone already has a patch (just be be sure).

Else you can start by modifying the danish layout in /usr/share/kvm/keymaps/da

AFAIK the format is not documented.
 
I have found that the keymap (at least in Oracle Linux and therefore probably also in RedHat / Fedora / CentOS) for Swedish keyboard layout is faulty. I documented my findings and a how-to that fixes this here, perhaps the solution also applies to Debian based distros? After the modifications all AltGr based keys work in VNC :)

Short description in English (note! from an RedHat/Oracle installation, path and filename might not be the same as for Debian):

Make copy of original keyboard mapping file, unzip it and open in an editor:

Code: 
# cp /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/sv-latin1.map.gz sv-vnc.map.gz
# gzip -d sv-vnc.map.gz
# vi sv-vnc.map

add the following entries:

Code: 
control altgr keycode 3 = at
control altgr keycode 4 = sterling
control altgr keycode 8 = braceleft
control altgr keycode 9 = bracketleft
control altgr keycode 10 = bracketright
control altgr keycode 11 = braceright
control altgr keycode 12 = backslash
control altgr keycode 27 = asciitilde
control altgr keycode 86 = bar

Save the file, compress it and start using:

Code: 
# gzip sv-vnc.map
# cp sv-vnc.map.gz /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/
# loadkeys sv-vnc

Make sure keyboard mapping survives reboot by editing the following file so KEYTABLE= points to the new mapping file:

Code: 
# vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYTABLE="sv-vnc"

Thats it! :)
 
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