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alexd

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Registered: 2013-03-29

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] German layout

Hello,

I recently installed Arch on my lenovo T430 and wanted add german layout. But when I selected "german, swiss" option there is only swiss layout added and no german one. Is it possible to get german somehow? On my desktop I use Arch for years and there is german available. So I wonder what I have done wrong on the laptop then...

Can somebody help please? Thank you in advance!

Last edited by alexd (2014-02-10 22:09:13)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] German layout

Where exactly did you select the layout?

alexd

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Registered: 2013-03-29

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] German layout

ah, yes, sorry. Ive done it in KDEs System Settings.
I tried to add it but it didnt helped /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard.conf:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

What could be a solution for such an issue?

Last edited by alexd (2014-02-06 19:11:35)

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 703

Re: [SOLVED] German layout

Where did you do that in KDE system settings? I have german, without swiss, here.

alexd

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Registered: 2013-03-29

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] German layout

1. System Settings -> Input Devices -> Keyboard -> Layouts

2. check box "Configure layouts" -> press "Add" button

3. Drop menu "Limit selection by language" choose "German, swiss"

4. In Drop menu "Layouts" only swiss available... no german at all...

the_shiver

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Registered: 2013-03-27

Posts: 130

Re: [SOLVED] German layout

german (all variants) should be there if you leave "limit selection by language" at "any language" and select german in the layout box just below

bratmaxe

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Registered: 2010-11-07

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Re: [SOLVED] German layout

@alexd: I think you misunderstood it. "German, swiss" is the Swiss sub-layout of German. You need to add the one that's called only "German" separately if you want both.

alexd

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Registered: 2013-03-29

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] German layout

Thank you very much for helping me! That's there, all right now.

It should be written like "German swiss" or "German (swiss)" but not with "," though

Last edited by alexd (2014-02-06 20:26:53)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] German layout

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309