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    Trouble installing BigBag to emulate DH mod

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    13-Mar-2025 19:20:27#1 Trouble installing BigBag to emulate DH mod

    I am trying to install the Dreymar BigBag mod in order to emulate Colemak-DH on my laptop's keyboard (X220 ThinkPad).

    I cloned the repository https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTrixXKB and ran the installation script. I got a lot of errors...

    debian% sh install-dreymar-xmod.sh 
install-dreymar-xmod.sh: 166: [[: not found

@@@ DreymaR's Big Bag Of Tricks install script (by OeBeAa, 2016-) @@@
¤ Found mod root dir './xkb-data_xmod'
install-dreymar-xmod.sh: 179: [: all: unexpected operator
¤ Subdirectories to mod: 'all'
install-dreymar-xmod.sh: 188: [: ifnone: unexpected operator
install-dreymar-xmod.sh: 190: [: ifnone: unexpected operator
¤ Backing up: None
install-dreymar-xmod.sh: 208: [: Illegal number: 
install-dreymar-xmod.sh: 232: [: no: unexpected operator
install-dreymar-xmod.sh: 232: [: /usr/share/X11: unexpected operator
¤ Installing mod files in '/usr/share/X11/dall'

@@@ WARNING: It seems that setxkbmap w/ local dir isn't working now?! @@@


@@@ install-dreymar-xmod.sh - ERROR: Local files copy error! @@@

    It was said on the repo to run this script first, so I did. Please help.

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    14-Mar-2025 09:39:27#2 Re: Trouble installing BigBag to emulate DH mod

    You ran it with sh, and it's a bash script.

    It says so in its help, but if you run it with the wrong shell you won't see the help either... dilemma.

    If you'd run it with ./install-dreymar-xmod.sh it'd have selected bash as per its shebang/hashbang (on the first line).

    I've now added 'BASH' to its description string, so you'll see it even when run with sh.

    On a side note: It's not an emulation. It's an xkb-data addition, which is what all the other X11/xkb layouts use too.

    Last edited by DreymaR (14-Mar-2025 10:46:53)

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    19-Mar-2025 18:06:01#3 Re: Trouble installing BigBag to emulate DH mod

    Ok @DreymaR, the script ran. Ugh, not sure the mention worked... there is no info how to mention people on the site.

    I was abloe to use xce4-keyboard-settings program to select two preffered colemak[eD] layouts, but they have not been applied? I still have the qwerty layout.

    From what I understand, `setkb.sh` does just this but via command-line. Acorrding to my `setxkbmap` settings the changes through GUI were applied:

    debian%  setxkbmap -v 9
Setting verbose level to 9
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     pl,pl,gb
variant:    cmk_ed_us,,cmk_ed_us
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+pl(cmk_ed_us)+pl:2+gb(cmk_ed_us):3+inet(evdev)
geometry:   pc(pc105)

    So what's next? Should this be working now? Why doesn't it?

    GUI settings picture: https://www.idrive.com/idrive/sh/sh?k=c2p9p2m0k7

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    20-Mar-2025 10:32:21#4 Re: Trouble installing BigBag to emulate DH mod

    That picture is of your boot manager. You won't get alt layouts into that without recompiling the layouts for boot manager (I haven't done that).

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    20-Mar-2025 20:52:53#5 Re: Trouble installing BigBag to emulate DH mod
    DreymaR said:

    That picture is of your boot manager. You won't get alt layouts into that without recompiling the layouts for boot manager (I haven't done that).

    Haha, sorry. I shared the wrong link: https://www.idrive.com/idrive/sh/sh?k=y1t2c7h3k3.

    To be clear, we're on the OS level on Debian 12.

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    21-Mar-2025 11:28:53#6 Re: Trouble installing BigBag to emulate DH mod

    To be honest, I have no idea why your settings don't take. I haven't used that Debian settings GUI for years. I'm sorry.

    Last edited by DreymaR (21-Mar-2025 11:29:07)

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