Modifying keyboard layout in wayland

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Huh? You said you were using Wayland. Show

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
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echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland

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but I don’t think that’s the error - the no symbols bit seems to be the error.

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There is missing first line in your file.

xkb_symbols "dvorakukpa" {

Look at this post and compare with what your posted.

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That’s true (sorry, I copied it from your revised code and didn’t notice that was missing)

So I now have

xkb_symbols "dvorakukpa" {
    include "gb(dvorakukp)"


    name[Group1]="English (UK, Dvorak, with UK punctuation and accented characters)";

    key <AC01>  { [         a,          A,    agrave,    agrave ] };
    key <AC02>  { [         o,          O,    ograve,    ograve ] };
    key <AC03>  { [         e,          E,    egrave,    egrave ] };
    key <AC04>  { [         u,          U,    ugrave,    ugrave ] };
    key <AC05>  { [         i,          I,    igrave,    igrave ] };
};

and

cat evdev.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xkbConfigRegistry SYSTEM "xkb.dtd">
<xkbConfigRegistry version="1.1">
  <layoutList>
    <layout>
      <configItem>
        <name>gb</name>
      </configItem>
      <variantList>
        <variant>
          <configItem>
            <name>dvorakukpa</name>
            <shortDescription>dvorakukpa</shortDescription>
            <description>English (UK, Dvorak, with UK punctuation and accented characters)</description>
          </configItem>
        </variant>
      </variantList>
    </layout>
  </layoutList>
</xkbConfigRegistry>

but I still get the same error message

Keycodes above 256 (e.g. <I256>) are not supported by X and are ignored
Error:            No Symbols named "dvorakukpa" in the include file "gb"
                  Exiting
                  Abandoning symbols file "(null)"
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Did you log out and logged in again after fixing the symbols/gb?

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I did, yes - can try doing that again …

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Still the same error message …

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Where and when exactly do you see message?

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I go to the keyboard layouts and add the new one. If I type in the test area, I get the old layout. When I select More Actions and then Preview, that’s where I see the error message.

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But bingo!! We have a result. àòèÚÏ are all working.

Thank you so much - if you are ever in the highlands of Scotland, you are owed a large dram!

Thanks again for your patience and help. I’ll mark this as solved, and hope it might help somebody else from tearing their hair out!

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Test area is on the same page where keyboards layouts are listed. Of course you first need to switch to a layout before it becomes effective. The test area is intended for key repeat/delay/rate settings, not to test layout that is being added.

Oh. Of course it won’t work as long as no geometry definition for your new layout exists. And I am not sure whether geometry can be per-user or has to be system-wide.

Next time please explain what you were doing in sufficient details for others to follow and reproduce. We are not staying behind your shoulder and can only guess which rarely leads to useful answers.

Well, there is the “Scottish Gaelic” variant based on the standard “English (UK)” layout with your additional grave accented vowels; you may consider submitting an issue upstream for Dvorak layout.

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