kbd.rpm is a package including keyboard maps for the text console (not the graphical envirnoment like X or Wayland)
Since 2015 these console keyboard maps have been generated from the X keyboard maps packaged in xkeyboard-config.rpm. We have also included the original console maps in the kbd-legacy subpackage.
Since January 2022 (SLE15-SP4) we have switched the console keymaps from the legacy ones to the ones generated from xkb.
| Dropped keyboard map | Selected replacement | Other options | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| be-latin1 | be | ||
| br-abnt2 | br | br-nativo | |
| cf | ca-fr-legacy | ||
| cn-latin1 | ca-multix | ||
| croat | hr | ||
| cz-lat2-us | cz-qwerty | ||
| cz-us-qwertz | cz | ||
| de-latin1 | de | ||
| de-latin1-nodeadkeys | de-nodeadkeys | ||
| dk-latin1 | dk | ||
| dvorak | us-dvorak | ||
| es-cp850 | -- (DROPPED) | Covered by es well enough |
|
| et | ee | ||
| fi | fi-kotoistus | ||
| fr-latin1 | fr | ||
| fr_CH-latin1 | ch-fr | ||
| hu | hu | hu-standard | |
| is-latin1 | is | ||
| jp106 | jp | ||
| la-latin1 | latam | ||
| lt.baltic | lt | ||
| nl | nl | nl-std | |
| no-latin1 | no | ||
| Pl02 | pl | ||
| pt-latin1 | pt | ||
| sg-latin1 | ch | ||
| sk-qwerty | sk-qwerty | ||
| sk-qwertz | sk | ||
| slovene | si | ||
| sr-cy | rs-latin | Serbian, Latin only | |
| sv-latin1 | se | ||
| trq | tr | ||
| uk | gb | ||
| us-acentos | br-nativo-us | Brazilian | |
| us-acentos | us-intl | US International |
Some languages have a need to switch between their native non-Latin script and the Latin script, and have legacy keymaps which combine these two scripts in a single keymap.
At the same time, their xkb layout contains no Latin letters, relying on being able to switch to another Latin layout. Their xkb layouts are not converted for console.
We're using localectl set-keymap to set both the console and X11 keymaps at
once, so removing kbd-legacy would break these languages als in X11.
| Legacy keyboard map | Selected replacement | Other options | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| gr | ? | Greek | |
| ru | ? | Russian | |
| tj_alt-UTF8 | ? | Tajik | |
| ua-utf | ? | Ukrainian |
Some languages have never had a native console layout. Their console keymaps
are simply a symlink to the us keymap:
- arabic
- ir (Iran, Persian/Farsi)
- khmer
These layouts are moving from kbd-legacy.rpm to kbd.rpm; bsc#1194609.