[arch-general] neo - german keyboard layout

[G. Schlisio]

Am 22.10.2012 08:50, schrieb Geert Hendrickx:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 22:16:22 +0200, G. Schlisio wrote:
>> hi list,
>> i played around with neo2, an alternative kbd layout optimized for
>> german. in my kde environment.
>> the main concept of neo is using meta keys to shift between layers.
>> for me, the meta4 key is not working on either side. i found some
>> suggestions to solve this problem, but nothing worked so far.
>> anybody out there knowing, how to fix this?
>> and how can i enable neo in initramfs, for input of my encryption pw?
>
> For X11 and Linux console this is completely separate.
>
> For the console, you configure the keymap in /etc/vconsole.conf, and you
> add "keymap" to the HOOKS line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to have it loaded
> early in the initrd to enter your encryption pw.
>
> For X11 you either use KDE's keyboard settings (since Neo is apparantly
> shipped with xkeyboard-config, it should be listed by xkb), or you just
> run setxkbmap somewhere in your X startup scripts as suggested by Robbie.
>
>
> 	Geert (Colemak user)
>
thanks for answering.
i added keymap to mkinitcpio, but where can i adjust the used layout? 
before the hdd is decrypted (like, say, while entering the password) it 
cannot access the /etc/vconsole.conf so there needs to be an other place.