Arch Linux endeavouros Manjaro CachyOS - Teclado inglés convertido a español con símbolo < > less greater en tty | English keyboard to la-latin1 / latam in tty console fix

If you bought a laptop with an English keyboard and you're going to use it in Latin America/Spain, you'll lose the greater and lesser keys on the keyboard; this will solve that.

The US standard keyboard comes with:

 

When converted to Latin America using stickers (details in yellow), it looks like this:

If you have a laptop with a US keyboard converted to Latin American Spanish (Latin America), you may have noticed that while in X11 / Wayland you can type < > using AltGr (the right Alt key) + Shift + X or Z (with latam keyboard 104 keys), you can't in a tty console and must use "loadkeys us" alternating with "loadkeys la-latin1".

You can map these symbols by modifying the la-latin1 keyboard layout, which is the correct layout for this keyboard in the console, by modifying the following lines.

HOW TO:

in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ you will find la-latin1.map.gz.

Create the file /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps using mkdir -p and copy la-latin1.map.gz there. Then, run gunzip la-latin1.map.gz and edit the la-latin1.map file with Vim.

On the line containing "keycode 86 = less greater" (line 61, which isn't working), delete entire line and add the next in the same place and below:

altgr keycode 51 = less

altgr keycode 52 = greater

Save and exit.

Rename the file to personal.map using the mv command, then convert it to a .gz file using gzip personal.map, which compresses it and renames it to personal.map.gz.

Now copy it to /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/.

Use localectl to set it like this:

localectl set-keymap personal personal

Now you have the right Alt key (AltGr) to use the original location of the <> symbol in the keyboard position (< above the comma, and > above the period) in the tty console without having to use loadkeys us.

Add keyboard latam to X11 / Wayland DE because now, the DE It won't recognize the map and will use the one on the keyboard, which is in English ANSI, so add latam/es if you haven't already.

And now you have latam with < > in X11 / Wayland and latam with < > in tty using the original keys.