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kone

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Registered: 2023-08-21

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[SOLVED]i3wm will not generate a config for dvorak

As stated, I just installed arch and I want to use i3, but no matter how many times I try to re-run the config wizard with my current keyboard layout(dvorak) i3 still uses the same shortcuts as if my layout was QWERTY.

Last edited by kone (2023-08-21 06:56:26)

kone

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Registered: 2023-08-21

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Re: [SOLVED]i3wm will not generate a config for dvorak

Ok, I fixed the problem by switching to a qwerty layout, running the i3-config-wizard with that, and then switching back do dvorak, as instructed here: https://gist.github.com/lee2sman/716c73 … ad325a3ab2

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED]i3wm will not generate a config for dvorak

Those instructions read to me as if the user would notoriously start i3wm w/ the QWERTY layout and only switch to Dvorak afterwards.
So they're configuring i3 shortcuts for the QWERTY symbols, what makes sense but is a rather ass-backwards approach.

How do you set the layout?
What's the output of

localectl

?

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kone

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Registered: 2023-08-21

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Re: [SOLVED]i3wm will not generate a config for dvorak

I generated the i3 config only once.
I switched to qwerty for a second.
rm my .config file from i3
run the i3-config-wizard
Change back to Dvorak.
No need for anything else!
Also, how do I mark the post as solved? I'm new around here lol.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]i3wm will not generate a config for dvorak

I read that link. Again: the approach is stupid.

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