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zunder

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Registered: 2016-04-22

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Keymap language issue with arch + x-org

I am having troubles using a German keyboard with X environments (using awesome wm, i3wm or gnome). Here is what localectl outputs:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  VC Keymap: de-latin1-nodeadkeys
  X11 Layout: de
  X11 Model: pc105
  X11 Variant: nodeadkeys

So it looks like the settings are correct. But all I get is an US American keyboard layout. This is kind of theired, because yesterday it worked correctly. I did not do anything but starting the notbook today. What else can I do to enforce a German keyboard keymap?

Last edited by zunder (2016-04-24 20:11:29)

Alber

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From: Spain - España

Registered: 2011-11-11

Posts: 227

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap language issue with arch + x-org

Try the next:
Open a terminal emulator from your X-windows session (e.g. urxvt or gnome-terminal) and run setxkbmap command:

setxkbmap de

If it works, you can make it permanent with localectl:

localectl set-x11-keymap de

More info:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … ard_layout

Last edited by Alber (2016-04-23 12:41:51)

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zunder

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Registered: 2016-04-22

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap language issue with arch + x-org

setxkbmap de

Did the trick. However, using localectl as you suggested does not change the behavior. I am just executing setxkbmap de in .xinitrc in order to do it on start up.

Alber

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From: Spain - España

Registered: 2011-11-11

Posts: 227

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap language issue with arch + x-org

... using localectl as you suggested does not change the behavior.

I don't know why the latter didn't work.
Maybe it is because localectl stablishes a global option which it is overridden by another local option as setxkbmap in .xinitrc.

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