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I've tried to piece together how to do this from various sources. First approach, based on 1 and 2:

$ grep ^HOOKS /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 keyboard keymap encrypt filesystems fsck" $ grep ^KEYMAP /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=dvorak

Then run sudo mkinitcpio -p linux successfully and reboot. Result: the password prompt still uses the US layout.

Second approach, based on 3:

  1. Install ckbcomp

  2. Run:

    sudo mkdir /boot/grub/layout sudo grub-kbdcomp -o /boot/grub/layout/us-dvorak-alt-intl.gkb us dvorak-alt-intl

    (ignored "Unknown keyboard scan code 0x…" warnings)

  3. In /etc/default/grub set GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=at_keyboard

  4. In /etc/grub.d/40_custom add:

    insmod keylayouts keymap /boot/grub/layout/us-dvorak-alt-intl.gkb

  5. Run:

    sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda reboot

Now I can use Dvorak in the GRUB menu, but not on the LUKS prompt.

Other sources mention a similar approach which I don't think can work because the LUKS prompt shows up before the relevant files can even be read. Finally, one source says this can't be done at all.

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    unix.stackexchange.com/a/174657/30851 Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 10:33
  • @frostschutz Yeah, that would work. Shame if it's the only way though. Do you want to post it as an answer? Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 10:50
  • It's not an answer to your question (you might want Dvorak in grub anyway for the grub shell and whatnot) but it should be a viable workaround for everything else (including livecd/rescue, you just have to make do with US layout in many cases). Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 10:57
  • I'd still upvote it - it solves the problem even though it's not the preferred method. Commented Mar 11, 2017 at 14:21
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    It is possible, I'd been doing it for some time now. I recently got a hardware-programmable keyboard and needed to change it back to qwerty so the kb itself can be dvorak instead. I found this question since I couldn't remember what I did.. I'm not making an answer since I dont know which of these changes worked, but basically it was either as simple as localectl set-keymap <YOUR KEYMAP>, or adding (or in my case, removing) rd.vconsole.keymap=<YOUR KEYMAP LOCALE from /etc/default/grub @ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" along with a grub2-mkconfig. It's not impossible both of these are needed..gl Commented Oct 25, 2018 at 5:07

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