ThinkPad X1 Carbon XKB Geometry

Here is my XKB geometry file for my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 6 with us keyboard layout. Note that all measurements are taken by eye. Feel free to make a pull request for improving the layout, including other X1 Carbon generations or including other country layouts.

The geometry features a CapsLock indicator.

Setup

As I understand, XKB configuration can be quite different on different operating systems. Here's what I did on Ubuntu 19.10 in order to get it running:

Copy the x1carbon file to /usr/share/X11/xkb/geometry/
Open /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev (you'll need sudo!)

Find the section starting with
```
! model = geometry
```
and add the following line somewhere in this section:
```
  x1carbon = x1carbon
```
You can test the geometry by setting your model for the current X session with:
```
setxkbmap -model "x1carbon"
```
For viewing the geometry, I just click on the language selector dropdown at the main menu panel and select Show Keyboard Layout. See the above screenshot as an example of what I get there. Note that I tried setting the geometry directly, but this would not work for me for some reason.
You can make the setting persistent by creating and X config file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the specific settings. Here's the content of my config file 20-keyboard-x1carbon.conf:
```
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "keyboard defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"

    Option "XkbModel" "x1carbon"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us,de"
    Option "XKbOptions" ""
EndSection
```
Note that you will also have to specify the layouts you want to include. You can have a look at the ArchLinux Wiki for XKB for an overview about setting other possible options here.

coldter/x1carbon-xkb-geometry

ThinkPad X1 Carbon XKB Geometry

Setup