Engram in the linux kernel

[asim215]

Hello.

Is it possible add this keymap to linux kernel along side with workman and norman?
I use engram for a year now and I really like it. Thanks for creating it!

But, I have following problems:

1. Sometimes after update my endeavourOS (arch linux) resets my settings for keyboard. So my localctl doesn't work, it can't find my engram installation. So I need manualy to reinstall it to work.
2. When we use virtual machines it is cool if we can choose engram from beginning of installation of new linux distribution. Because when I use VNC it is by default uses qwerty. And it becomes confusing to have in mind both engram for host and qwerty for guest. When guest is in focus you have to type qwerty, and when out of focus you have to type engram.

I previously use norman which had been added to kernel because it has 100+ users at least at github. But for me engram is more effective and joyful to type. If engram v2 is final stable version, I think we can add it to kernel.

[binarybottle]

Thank you for the suggestion, @asim215! I think it's a great idea, but I have no experience adding anything to the linux kernel. Would you be able to undertake this, or have recommendations for how to do this? I found the following document online: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html

[asim215]

Thank you for the suggestion, @asim215! I think it's a great idea, but I have no experience adding anything to the linux kernel. Would you be able to undertake this, or have recommendations for how to do this? I found the following document online: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html

I also have no experience of this. But what I mean is to include to xkeyboard-config. When I research about norman previously, I stumbled of email list of that process here. I think it is discussion about adding it to Xorg. I previously think it is Linux, because it have to be also available from wayland... I don't even know how to add it to kernel, there must be super strict process for that. I am really newbie, sorry... :D

[rfiga]

Modifying xkeyboard-config files will also work for Wayland. Unfortunately, with every package upgrade, the data files are reset and we need to reinstall. If we can get the xkeyboard-config project to accept Engram patches then we will have an out-of-the-box supported keymap for X11.

For Linux Console, you need kbd keymaps. We don't have one for engram yet. Both kbd and xkb maps are needed for a complete Linux Engram Environment. I'll try and see If I can make one.