Where do I set my keyboard layout via SDDM to UK on boot?

mrmonk · 2023-10-01 15:04:33

When I get to the SDDM login screen, it swaps @ for " and # for alt + 3.

When I've logged it its fine as Hyprland sets it correctly, I'm guessing I need to set it on SDDM or earlier in the call stack?

teckk · 2023-10-01 15:09:35

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_ … figuration
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboard_input
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboard_shortcuts
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LOCALE

mrmonk · 2023-10-01 15:15:10

Yes I've already enabled en_GB and ran locale-gen but it still isn't getting picked up by SDDM.

I've also set LANG in /etc/locale./conf to en_GB.UTF-8

Last edited by mrmonk (2023-10-01 15:24:10)

seth · 2023-10-01 16:15:24

The locale and LANG variables aren't relevant, keyboard layout is just also handled by localectl.

localectl

and, assuming you're using SDDM on X11, please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

mrmonk · 2023-10-01 19:46:52

I see thanks for that information.
I am on wayland not X11

Here is my output of locale

➜  ~ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"

Last edited by mrmonk (2023-10-01 19:49:03)

seth · 2023-10-01 19:52:11

"locale" is irrelevant, "localectl" however will also print the global keyboard config (for X11 but in a location where wayland compositors typically pick it up)

mrmonk · 2023-10-01 19:53:16

Thanks for that.
localectl gives the following:

System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: (unset)         
   X11 Layout: (unset)

I checked for /etc/X11 but it doesn't exist. will try and look into where this file is...

setxkbmap gives an error

➜  ~ setxkbmap en_GB
WARNING: Running setxkbmap against an Xwayland server
Error loading new keyboard description

Last edited by mrmonk (2023-10-01 19:54:33)

seth · 2023-10-01 20:01:32

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/K … _localectl
Pay attention to the "by passing an empty string" passage.

mrmonk · 2023-10-01 20:09:32

I've tried the following, but I still don't get the correct keyboard (" should be @ but @ is " shift + @ key, even in tty

echo "KEYMAP=gb" | sudo tee -a /etc/vconsole.conf
localectl --no-convert set-x11-keymap gb pc104 ,dvorak grp:win_space_toggle

It seems listed with localectl list-keymaps

Last edited by mrmonk (2023-10-01 20:10:00)

seth · 2023-10-01 20:19:41

vconsole is irrelevant and the localectl call is wrong - you've only one layout (gb) but try to set the variants for two (,dvorak) and add a toggle.
Don't blindly copypaste the blue boxes.
Post the output of "localectl" (though afaiu it just mindlessly writes whatever you ask for w/o any sanity checks) and then please link the image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_a … _keyboards that looks like the keyboard in front of you.

mrmonk · 2023-10-01 20:25:20

So this would suffice?

localectl --no-convert set-x11-keymap gb pc104

localectl:

System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: (unset)         
   X11 Layout: gb
    X11 Model: pc104

Here is my keyboard: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ … om_Ext.png

Last edited by mrmonk (2023-10-01 20:26:05)

seth · 2023-10-01 20:49:00

The variant for that is "extd", though I guess you're only really after the basic UK layout but are getting the US default.
Please try the bahvior w/ SDDM on X11 - your config doesn't look wrong at this point and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#S … ard_layout sounds likely DMMS loads it agnostic of the display server, might be a bug in its wayland backend, though.

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