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thecoolcats

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Registered: 2025-07-18

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Unable to install new keyboard layouts

I've been recently trying to install a keyboard layout, however this hasn't worked. When I set up my install, I only installed a US keyboard layout.
I uncommented keyboard I wanted in /etc/locale.gen, and ran sudo locale-gen. It said that the locale had by successfully installed. Going into my settings, I did find the locale I was trying to install among my locales. However, the keyboard layout did not show up in my keyboard settings. Clicking "Add Input Source" simply crashed gnome-control-center. I also tried experimenting with changing the settings through other methods, but this did not work. I should note that gnome-control-center gives the following error when I open the keyboard panel:

cc-keyboard-panel[226369]: WARNING: Couldn't finish IBus request: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownProperty: Unknown interface org.freedesktop.IBus or property Engines.

Running loadkeys also did not work.
I have also tried reinstalling kbd.
I should note that they keyboard layout I have been trying to install is the Uyghur keyboard layout.

Last edited by thecoolcats (2025-07-18 15:43:30)

seth

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Re: Unable to install new keyboard layouts

locale.gen does NOT relate to keyboard layouts.
Did you configure an alternative https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_method ("NOT recommended in GNOME due to tight integration with IBus")?

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thecoolcats

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Re: Unable to install new keyboard layouts

Did you configure an alternative https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Input_method ("NOT recommended in GNOME due to tight integration with IBus")?

No, I have not configured an alternative input method.

Last edited by thecoolcats (2025-07-18 16:30:01)

seth

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Re: Unable to install new keyboard layouts

Running loadkeys also did not work.

That's for the linux console.

For gnome, esp. on wayland, configure the keyboard layout with the gnome settings GUI.
There's no other way and unless you're gonna use some completely custom layout you also don't have to add anything anywhere (at which point gnome might become nasty anyway)
That being said "grep -ri  Uyghur /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols" only matches some cn layout - what specifically are you looking for?

Also sanity check: how do you start gnome?

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thecoolcats

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Re: Unable to install new keyboard layouts

For gnome, esp. on wayland, configure the keyboard layout with the gnome settings GUI.

Unfortunately, I can't use the Gnome settings menu because it crashes when I select "add input method" (as I mentioned before).

Also sanity check: how do you start gnome?

GNOME starts with my system, I don't start it manually.

seth

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Re: Unable to install new keyboard layouts

That's just a warning, it should™ not "crash".
Do you get a https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_d … _core_dump ?

Also post the output of

loginctl session-status
printenv

since the warning sounds as if you're not using ibus.

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