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    From Robert Alm Nilsson@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 24 20:00:01 2022
    Hi, I use the colemak keyboard layout but I'm not able to find a
    "colemak" option in the installer where you select keyboard layout.
    Currently every time I install Debian (which happens pretty often
    because I love this operating system) I have to use another keyboard
    layout during the installation and then set XKBVARIANT="colemak" in /etc/default/keyboard after the installation. It would be awesome
    to be able to use colemak from the start. I hope we can add that as
    an option.

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  • From Holger Wansing@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 24 21:00:01 2022
    Hi Robert,

    Am 24. September 2022 19:26:25 MESZ schrieb Robert Alm Nilsson <robert@robalni.org>:
    Hi, I use the colemak keyboard layout but I'm not able to find a
    "colemak" option in the installer where you select keyboard layout.
    Currently every time I install Debian (which happens pretty often
    because I love this operating system) I have to use another keyboard
    layout during the installation and then set XKBVARIANT="colemak" in >/etc/default/keyboard after the installation. It would be awesome
    to be able to use colemak from the start. I hope we can add that as
    an option.

    I fear, that the installer cannot support every existing cornercase,
    as the Colemak layout is also a cornercase.

    I hope, that others in the team will correct me, if I'm wrong.


    Regards
    Holger


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  • From Samuel Thibault@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 25 19:10:01 2022
    Hello,

    Holger Wansing, le sam. 24 sept. 2022 20:57:09 +0200, a ecrit:
    Hi Robert,

    Am 24. September 2022 19:26:25 MESZ schrieb Robert Alm Nilsson <robert@robalni.org>:
    Hi, I use the colemak keyboard layout but I'm not able to find a
    "colemak" option in the installer where you select keyboard layout. >Currently every time I install Debian (which happens pretty often
    because I love this operating system) I have to use another keyboard
    layout during the installation and then set XKBVARIANT="colemak" in >/etc/default/keyboard after the installation. It would be awesome
    to be able to use colemak from the start. I hope we can add that as
    an option.

    I fear, that the installer cannot support every existing cornercase,
    as the Colemak layout is also a cornercase.

    As a complement: please read

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698322

    for an existing discussion about it, indeed.

    Samuel

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