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dkaparis

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Registered: 2015-04-25

Posts: 11

XFCE problem switching keyboard layouts

After setting up my system with XFCE I followed the wiki to set up an additional keyboard layout.
I used the localectl utility:

localectl set-x11-keymap us,pl

This created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf with the following contents:

# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us,pl"
EndSection

After restarting session, I can't switch layouts with the language panel.

setxkbmap -print -verbose 10 gives the following output:

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:      pc104
layout:     us,pl
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+us+pl:2+inet(evdev)
geometry:   pc(pc104)
xkb_keymap {
    xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"    };
    xkb_types     { include "complete"    };
    xkb_compat    { include "complete"    };
    xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+pl:2+inet(evdev)"    };
    xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"    };
};

After just giving the setxkbmap command without arguments I can switch layouts without problem till the end of the session. The setxkbmap -print -verbose 10 output then is exactly the same as before.

I guess I could include setxkbmap in startup somewhere so I don't have to run it every session, however why is it needed for X keyboard configuration to take effect?