[SOLVED]I can't use Polish special characters in xfce

860lacov · 2020-05-04 17:12:37

In xfceI can't use letters like:
ć, ń, ó, ś, ź
I have them in tty.

Normal shortcut is alt+c for ć

In my situation in (for example firefox) it opens top bar menu with c shortcut under c. Pomoc

I tried to find solution. In Arch wiki and in google.
my locale.conf:
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8

My locale.gen:
...
#pap_CW UTF-8
pl_PL.UTF-8 UTF-8
#pl_PL ISO-8859-2
...

My vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=pl
FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
FONT_MAP=8859-2

It's fresh install. During installation, I checked everything many times (it was my second installation on real hardware).

Last edited by 860lacov (2020-05-05 09:51:46)

seth · 2020-05-04 17:35:13

I tried to find solution. In Arch wiki and in google.

Did you find https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … figuration ?

papavlos · 2020-05-04 17:55:39

Is it the same behaviour with both Alt keys?
Usually rightAlt+c should produce ć, and leftAlt+c should activate the Pomoc menu.

860lacov · 2020-05-04 23:25:31

seth wrote:

I tried to find solution. In Arch wiki and in google.
Did you find https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … figuration ?

No I didn't so thank you.
I wanted to convert wiki example to my situation

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

ection "InputClass"
    Identifier "system-keyboard"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
    Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
EndSection

It didn't help. After restart keyboard didn't work.

papavlos wrote:

Is it the same behaviour with both Alt keys?
Usually rightAlt+c should produce ć, and leftAlt+c should activate the Pomoc menu.

Maybe usually. In my case both alts open menu.

I checked xfce keyboard settings.
There was English language slected.
I changed it to Polish and it is working.
But I don't know why I couldn't achieve this with arch wiki way.

papavlos · 2020-05-05 00:40:16

Well... You've just learned something by checking that by yourself. This is the 'Arch way'.
Please, be so kind and mark the thread as solved.

860lacov · 2020-05-05 07:12:14

papavlos wrote:

Well... You've just learned something by checking that by yourself. This is the 'Arch way'.
Please, be so kind and mark the thread as solved.

And I of course will mark it.

But I would like to clarify something.

I thought that after setting up the system during installation - setting for Polish language - everything should be installed to work with this language.
XFCE has been installed in Polish. keyboard not.

Because of seth tim I thought that this is the solution:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

ection "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
EndSection

But it didn't change nothing. Is that xfce thing or I missed something?

seth · 2020-05-05 07:36:47

Is that xfce thing

Apparently: "Also".

wiki wrote:

Note: XKB options can be overridden by the tools provided by some desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.

or I missed something?

No.

Thetruearchway™ would be to write an xinitrc that starts a nifty lean WM and maybe runs setxkbmap, but you know: mass appeal ;-)

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#1 2020-05-04 17:12:37

[SOLVED]I can't use Polish special characters in xfce

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