Arch Linux

init7

Member

Registered: 2015-01-08

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

Hey everyone,

I'm using my laptop (4.7.6-1 x64) with two different keyboards, hence I use the titlebar quick switcher of Gnome Shell to switch between keymaps "English Intl AtlGr dead Keys" and "German Legacy", which I configured using Gnome Control Center v. 3.20.1
After the last software update using pacman, the German keymap was suddenly gone and could not be selected anymore from the system's keymaps. The other German keymaps are of no use of me because they don't allow for the combination of accent or tilde with letters.

How can I re-install the German legacy keymap? Why was a keymap simply removed from the system without warning?

Thanks for your time,
best regards

Last edited by init7 (2016-10-12 22:15:33)

onslow77

Member

Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 279

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

Hello!

Please read my my signature.

A search on DuckDuckGo/Google with for example "Arch Linux keymap" or "Arch Linux Keyboard Layout" would lead to the Arch Linux Keyboard Configuration Wiki

Searching with gnome help keyboard also yields useful results!

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2016-10-12 21:46:02)

---

It is advised to follow the How to post guide when posting on the Arch forum. If one consciously jumps over these elementary steps like reading the wiki and providing necessary information about the problem, one can be regarded as a Help Vampire.

init7

Member

Registered: 2015-01-08

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

Hey onslow77,

thanks for your answer.

Just as when I was searching before, the pages you pointed out only lists help for how set a keymap. However, the one I want seems gone from the system entirely (also localectl doesn't seem to find it anymore). I was unsuccessful in finding ways to install or restore keymaps and at least all the search terms I could think of only yielded results for setting keymaps that already exist.

seth

Member

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,273

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

grep legacy /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de
pacman -Qi xkeyboard-config

Do you maybe gnome on wayland?

---

How to upload text · How to boot w/o GUI · Disable Windows Fast-Start! · Fix your xinitrc

init7

Member

Registered: 2015-01-08

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

Hey seth,

thanks for your answer.

I do have Wayland installed (per gtk3), but I run X11 (no weston process, but an Xorg one).

There is no search result for "legacy", the dependency query yields

Name            : xkeyboard-config
Version         : 2.19-1
Description     : X keyboard configuration files
Architecture    : any
URL             : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : xkbdata
Depends On      : None
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : gnome-desktop  libxkbcommon  libxklavier  xorg-server-common
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : xkbdata
Replaces        : xkbdata
Installed Size  : 5.34 MiB
Packager        : Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@gmail.com>
Build Date      : Fri 30 Sep 2016 13:27:35 CEST
Install Date    : Wed 12 Oct 2016 10:58:12 CEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

seth

Member

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,273

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

Diffing, "legacy" was indeed renamed to "dead tilde" upstream¹ because of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9752
You may discuss there whether that is a reasonable move ;-)

[1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard- … abd59d768f

---

How to upload text · How to boot w/o GUI · Disable Windows Fast-Start! · Fix your xinitrc

init7

Member

Registered: 2015-01-08

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

That is amazing, thank you! I did try a few others, but that did the trick.

onslow77

Member

Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 279

Re: [SOLVED] Keymap "German Legacy" disappeared

Hey onslow77,

thanks for your answer.

Just as when I was searching before, the pages you pointed out only lists help for how set a keymap. However, the one I want seems gone from the system entirely (also localectl doesn't seem to find it anymore). I was unsuccessful in finding ways to install or restore keymaps and at least all the search terms I could think of only yielded results for setting keymaps that already exist.

Hello!

Ok. What was the locale that you are missing called?

Is the locale that you are missing listed If you list previosly genereated locales? You can do that with:

 localedef --list-archive 

Regards
Martin

---

It is advised to follow the How to post guide when posting on the Arch forum. If one consciously jumps over these elementary steps like reading the wiki and providing necessary information about the problem, one can be regarded as a Help Vampire.