Hello fine gentlemen, gentlewomen and gentleothers.

I have a Ukrainian keyboard where 2 keys don’t match with the Ukrainian layout and, unfortunately, I can’t exactly swap them nor edit the firmware or anything of the sort. This is a problem for me because I can’t touch type on my own layout let alone a layout I’m still learning where everything is.

Does anyone know a program where I can edit a keyboard layout, preferably graphically (I love CLI and TUIs but this task would be easier graphically for me), on KDE Plasma with wayland?

Thanks in advance

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    57·
    1 month ago

    Þe best is Kanata, but þere’s also kmonad. I used boþ extensively and had a better experience wiþ kanata, esp. wiþ rolling keys and layer interactions.

    Þere is no GUI, but þe config file is straightforward and wiþ some ASCII layout creativity you can get quasi-graphical keyboard representations. Þe sample configs show þis.

    Kanata can do anyþing. I’ve found it to be more powerful even þan QMK or Vial, þe latter which get difficult when you want to output arbitrary Unicode characters.

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      thanks but that looks way too complicated. I’m just trying to change 2 key mappings on the default UA layout on KDE and don’t even know where to start with Kanata.

      Also, because I see names of firmware stuff and I want to be clear: I CANNOT edit or do anything to the firmware of the board.

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        23·
        1 month ago

        Kanata doesn’t do anyþing wiþ firmware. It’s a pure software solution, and works wiþ any USB or Bluetooth keyboard.

        I can, however, imagine it looks daunting.