Bug#623975: grub2: Add support for setkey!

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:24:40PM -0700, Garrett McLean wrote:
> Please add support for setkey! Without it I am forced to use a QWERTY layout
> if I want to edit menu entries in grub (pressing 'e' at the menu). This is
> super annoying as a Dvorak user.

It almost certainly isn't going to be backported to squeeze, but the
version in sid has grub-mklayout and grub-kbdcomp utilities.  You can do
something like this (untested):

  sudo mkdir -p /boot/grub/layouts
  ckbcomp us dvorak | sudo grub-mklayout -o /boot/grub/layouts/us:dvorak.gkb

... and then add this command to /boot/grub/custom.cfg:

  keymap us:dvorak

Hopefully we'll get this a bit more neatly integrated in future.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]