[pve-devel] [PATCH installer v2] set console keymap on language selection

[Stoiko Ivanov]

This is an enhancement for #2804

Having a shell waiting on vt3, it improves user experience if it has the
same keyboard map as the X11 installer.

This is accomplished by setting the contents of '/etc/default/keyboard' and
then running `setupcon`. Simply calling `loadkeys` would not work, since the
keymaps in debian are generated from the x11 definitions by ckbcomp and then
saved in '/etc/console-setup/'.

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
v1->v2:
* incorporated Thomas' feedback, making the whitespace prefix stripping more
  robust (Thanks!)
* took a look at the generated file instead of only testing the keyboard layout
  (hence the 'gm' flags for the substition)
 proxinstall | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/proxinstall b/proxinstall
index 556c509..edbb10e 100755
--- a/proxinstall
+++ b/proxinstall
@@ -2668,8 +2668,19 @@ sub create_country_view {
 	if (my $kmap = $cmap->{kmaphash}->{$sel}) {
 	    my $xkmap = $cmap->{kmap}->{$kmap}->{x11};
 	    my $xvar = $cmap->{kmap}->{$kmap}->{x11var};
-	    syscmd ("setxkbmap $xkmap $xvar") if !$opt_testmode;
 	    $keymap = $kmap;
+
+	    if (! $opt_testmode) {
+		syscmd ("setxkbmap $xkmap $xvar");
+		my $kbd_config = qq{
+		    XKBLAYOUT="$xkmap"
+		    XKBVARIANT="$xvar"
+		    BACKSPACE="guess"
+		};
+		$kbd_config =~ s/^\s+//gm;
+		write_config($kbd_config, '/etc/default/keyboard');
+		syscmd ("setupcon");
+	    }
 	}
     });
 
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2.20.1