[Solved] Keyboard layout misshap

kRYOoX · 2015-05-06 16:09:55

Hello wonderful people,

I'm having a couple of weird problem with my keyboard layout.
I use a UK qwerty keyboard. But I'm French and I occasionally need some of those pesky accents. I've therefore taken the habit of using a variant of the UK layout. On Windows, it's named "UK Extended". On Ubuntu, it's "UK Extended WinKeys".
This is the layout where the backtick is used as a dead key for grave accents such as 'è' and Super/Win key is used for acute accents such as 'é' and other weird symbols (like 'ç').

Now the first problem. I've found that the commands to set this layout are :

$ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout gb -variant extd -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
$ localectl set-x11-keymap gb pc105 extd terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

However, everytime I suspend or restart the computer, my layout is changed back to another type of qwerty that I suspect to be US, possibly a variant.
I compared the results of "localectl status" and "setxkbmap -print -verbose 10" before and after rebooting, and they are exactly identical :

$ localectl status                                                               
   System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: uk
      X11 Layout: gb
       X11 Model: pc105
     X11 Variant: extd
     X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

$ setxkbmap -print -verbose 10                                                   
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     gb
variant:    extd
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+gb(extd)+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+gb(extd)+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

If this output doesn't change, and re-typing the command I mentioned earlier fixes the problem, what could that problem be ?
I presume that if I set my WM to execute these command at start-up, that would solve the issue, but it's more a workaround than a real fix.

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Second problem :

Even when the layout is properly set, one of my keys is not properly mapped. That's the backslash / pipe key. Instead it mimics the '#'/'~' key.

Is there any way I can manually remap this key to have the proper behaviour ? Or any other solution that you could think of ?

Thanks in advance for the help you can give me.

P.S: I'm not sure these questions are considered newbie or not, so apologies if the thread is not properly located.

Last edited by kRYOoX (2015-05-08 09:59:22)

onslow77 · 2015-05-07 12:18:03

Hello,

Welcome to Arch Linux!

Did you follow the arch wiki about keyboard layouts (linked from general recomendations)?

For the console - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … in_console
For Xorg - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg

Using setxkbmap only sets the layout for the current session (can be made persistant in .xinitrc), as stated in the above Xorg guide.

Regarding remapping certain keys, have a look at xmodmap - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmodmap, should get you in the right direction.

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2015-05-07 12:25:48)

kRYOoX · 2015-05-08 10:00:10

Thanks for the links. I managed to get around my problem with them

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#1 2015-05-06 16:09:55

[Solved] Keyboard layout misshap

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Re: [Solved] Keyboard layout misshap

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Re: [Solved] Keyboard layout misshap

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