Nix Colemak-DH layout
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Nix Colemak-DH layout
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NixOs is gaining a lot of attentions right now. I’ve also decided to try to use is as my daily driver. I won’t go into the details of installation of nixos, or setting up flake. Check out Introduction to Nix & NixOS free ebook and Nix starter configis
As I use Colemak Mod-DH layout, this was must-have first step for me to configure.
Obviously, [DreymaR’s Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks](https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTrixXKB] didn’t work on NixOS, and I couldn’t find an existing solution for this.
So I’ve created a custom layout based on the [DreymaR’s Big Bag of Keyboard Tricks](https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTrixXKB].
- Create layout file
symbols/colemak_dhwith the DH symbols:
default partial alphanumeric_keys
// overwrite some keys with the Mod-DH config
xkb_symbols "dh" {
// get the base colemak layout
include "us(colemak)"
// use AltGr as a 3rd modifier
//include "level3(ralt_switch)"
//AB lowest row, see https://www.charvolant.org/doug/xkb/html/node5.html
//12345678
//zxcdvkh,
key <AB01> { [ z, Z, U0292, U01B7 ] }; // QWE Z Cmk zZ ʒƷ
key <AB02> { [ x, X, dagger, doubledagger ] }; // QWE X Cmk xX †‡
key <AB03> { [ c, C, copyright, cent ] }; // QWE C Cmk cC ©¢
key <AB04> { [ d, D, eth, ETH ] }; // QWE/Cmk V
key <AB05> { [ v, V, division, Greek_gamma ] }; // QWE/Cmk B
key <AB06> { [ k, K, ccedilla, Ccedilla ] }; // QWE N Cmk kK çÇ
key <AB07> { [ h, H, hstroke, Hstroke ] }; // QWE/Cmk M
key <AC05> { [ g, G, eng, ENG ] }; // QWE G Cmk D
key <AC06> { [ m, M, multiply, downarrow ] }; // QWE/Cmk H
key <AD05> { [ b, B, enfilledcircbullet, Greek_beta ] }; // QWE T Cmk G
key <CAPS> { [ Escape, Escape, Escape, Escape ] };
};
- Define extra custom layouts that will be included in the xkb configuration:
services.xserver.extraLayouts.dh = {
description = "Colemak-DH ergo";
languages = ["eng"];
symbolsFile = ../symbols/colemak_dh;
};
- Define keyboard layout for xserver:
services.xserver = {
layout = "dh,ru";
xkbOptions = "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp";
};
- Configure layouts for your Display Server(I am using Hyprland):
# For all categories, see https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Variables/
input {
kb_layout = dh,ru
kb_options = caps:none,grp:win_space_toggle,caps:escape
}
- Finally, configure icons and switch in your bar(I am using Waybar):
"hyprland/language" = {
"format-en" = " dh";
"format-ru" = " ru";
"keyboard-name" = "at-translated-set-2-keyboard";
on-click = "${hyprctl} switchxkblayout at-translated-set-2-keyboard next";
};
I also tried setting up 3 layouts, but switching between them seems to be broken. Anyway, this short steps could help you in setting Colemak-DH or any other custom layout in NixOS.
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