Bug 1031003

Xkb converted keymaps are used by default in F20 and later.

Executing "loadkeys cz-lat2" is the same as "loadkeys /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cz-lat2.map.gz", which is symbolic link to /lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/cz-qwerty.map.gz.

Original cz-lat2 is still available though, you need to do "loadkeys /lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/cz-lat2.map.gz". Switching should work as expected then.

It is no more possible to switch the new layout to US by some hotkey?

How to load the old layout on boot through e.g. vconsole.conf?
KEYMAP=cz-lat2

To make this clear...

Please ignore comment #1 - there are no longer symbolic links. loadkeys takes the layout from /lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/, if it fails to find the keymap there, it tries to find it in /lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/.

cz-lat2 works as expected now, because xkb converted keymap has been dropped:

# loadkeys cz-lat2
Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/cz-lat2.map.gz

However this is not true for e.g. cz.map.gz, fi.map.gz, ... When you want to use "old" layout, you have to provide full path to the keymap to loadkeys, see:

# loadkeys fi
Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/fi.map.gz
vs.
# loadkeys /lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/fi.map.gz 
Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/fi.map.gz

But this is not possible through vconsole.conf. It seems to provide loadkeys just with keymap name, I see no difference between:
KEYMAP=fi
and
KEYMAP=/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/fi.map.gz

So this is a request for passing a full path of the keymap to loadkeys, just as it is written in vconsole.conf.

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Is this (passing the full path to load keys) still needed? I think we have just one keymap now in F21+:

$ locate fi.map.gz
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/i386/qwerty/fi.map.gz

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