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kabads

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Keyboard layout not changing after pacman -Syu update

So, I updated on Saturday and since then cannot get dvorak to load in X - it always defaults to qwerty.

This is my Xorg.log.0 file https://pastebin.com/k2gBQ9tY

I'm using i3, but all WMs are affected. The vconsole does not have this problem, and uses the dvorak layout just fine.

setxkbmap -print -verbose 10 gives:

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:      dvorak
layout:     gb
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+gb+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+gb+inet(evdev)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"	};
};

Last edited by kabads (2023-06-19 08:32:07)

seth

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Re: Keyboard layout not changing after pacman -Syu update

"model:      dvorak"
"xkb_model" "dvorak"

setxkbmap -layout gb -variant dvorak

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kabads

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Re: Keyboard layout not changing after pacman -Syu update

That fixed it. Thanks. Where is the best place to make this permanent?

Last edited by kabads (2023-06-19 12:10:23)

seth

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Re: Keyboard layout not changing after pacman -Syu update

xorg configlet, like apparently present.
It's just not a "model" but a "variant".

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kabads

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Re: Keyboard layout not changing after pacman -Syu update

This is what I have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf:

# Written by systemd-localed(8), read by systemd-localed and Xorg. It's
# probably wise not to edit this file manually. Use localectl(1) to
# instruct systemd-localed to update it.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
        Option "XkbModel" "dvorak"
EndSection

but this isn't working.

seth

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Re: Keyboard layout not changing after pacman -Syu update

It's just not a "model" but a "variant".

Edit: it's even the example in the wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/K … tion_files

Last edited by seth (2023-06-19 12:23:53)

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