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jess

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Registered: 2016-06-11

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Setting keyboard layout in vconsole.conf isn't in effect in Terminal

I'm running Arch on my Mac with Gnome but my keyboard layout setting is not in effect in Terminal. I have the line "KEYMAP=jp106" in my /etc/vconsole.conf, but my keyboard works in the us layout. It was working properly before I set up my desktop environment.

I tried "sudo setxkbmap -layout jp" and it worked but how can I make this permanent?

Docbroke

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Re: Setting keyboard layout in vconsole.conf isn't in effect in Terminal

/etc/vconsole.conf is for console. What is the output of "locale"?

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jess

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Registered: 2016-06-11

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Re: Setting keyboard layout in vconsole.conf isn't in effect in Terminal

Here's the output of "locale":

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

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Re: Setting keyboard layout in vconsole.conf isn't in effect in Terminal

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … youts_in_X

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jess

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Registered: 2016-06-11

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Re: Setting keyboard layout in vconsole.conf isn't in effect in Terminal

Here's the output of "localectl"

   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: jp106
      X11 Layout: jp

ooo

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Re: Setting keyboard layout in vconsole.conf isn't in effect in Terminal

If you're using gnome-terminal, you should set the layout in gnome-control-center -> Region & language -> Input sources.
Click the button with '+' icon to add your preferred keyboard layout and make sure it's on top of the list.

Last edited by ooo (2016-06-15 14:39:37)