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I had the basic version of this laying around for some while but didn't continue on it. Originally it was for testing support for the Neo layout introduced back then (8cd6d53). We only test the first three Neo layers, because the last three layers are largely comprised of special characters and in addition to that the support for the VT keymap seems to be limited compared to the Xorg keymap. Yesterday @NicolasPetton on IRC had troubles with the Colemak layout (IRC logs: http://nixos.org/irc/logs/log.20160330, starting at 16:08) and I found that test again, so I went for improving and adding to <nixpkgs>. While the original problem seemed to be related to GDM, we can still add another subtest that checks whether GDM correctly applies the keyboard layout. However I don't have a clue how to properly configure the keyboard layout on GDM, at least not within the NixOS configuration. The main goal of this test is not to test a complete set of all key mappings but to check whether the keymap is loaded and working at all. It also serves as an example for NixOS keyboard configurations. The list of keyboard layouts is by no means complete, so everybody is free to add their own to the test or improve the existing ones. Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-15.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-15.09
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
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