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neumino

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Registered: 2011-10-03

Posts: 5

[Solved]Gnome - wrong layout with option intl

Hello,

I'm using Gnome, and would like to switch between two keyboards:
- English (US)
- English (US - international with dead keys)

I can add the US international with dead keys in "Region and Languages" but then I get an error in the Xorg'logs

 (EE) Error loading keymap /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm

And the layout is not working (it refer to a classic US layout).

According to this url the name of the layout is "us+intl", which seems to be confirmed by the content of /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml

In this directory ( /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty ) I don't have a file named us-intl.map.gz, so I first just tried to copy us.map.gz to us-intl.gz but even after rebooting, Xorg was still complaining that he couldn't find the keyboard layout. I also tried us+intl.map.gz.

Using the command

setxkbmap -model thinkpad -layout us -variant intl -option grp:win_switch

Gives the layout I want, but I would like to be able to switch between the two layouts.

Any idea where/what should I look?

Thank you!

Last edited by neumino (2013-02-11 18:36:59)

neumino

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Registered: 2011-10-03

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved]Gnome - wrong layout with option intl

Looking at GDM's logs, here's what I get.

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Compat map for group 2 redefined
>                   Using new definition
> Warning:          Compat map for group 3 redefined
>                   Using new definition
> Warning:          Compat map for group 4 redefined
>                   Using new definition
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LGD", prod id 898
(II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1600x900"x0.0  108.00  1600 1648 1680 1924  900 903 908 936 -hsync -vsync (56.1 kHz eP)
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error:            No Symbols named "intl" in the include file "nl"
>                   Exiting
>                   Abandoning symbols file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

"nl" changes value everytime I reboot. I've seen "jp", "ee" etc.
It's like GDM is picking a random layout and then looking for the intl option.

Any idea why?
I've tried to force the layout in xorg.conf.d/10-evdev to "us" but it didn't change anything.

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About the warnings, I can remove then following the solution of https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1105212

Edit: I tried to force the layout with systemd, but it doesn't work too.

Last edited by neumino (2013-02-11 10:06:12)

neumino

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Registered: 2011-10-03

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved]Gnome - wrong layout with option intl

Ok, I'm giving up on trying to find an elegant solution with Gnome handling my keyboards (at least for now).

Using dconf-editor, I tried to define "us" as "us+basic" and "us+us" thinking that maybe intl was being matched to nothing which would explain the random layout, but that didn't work.
I also noticed that using the first command I gave with setxkbmap can switch from us to us-intl but not from us-intl to us (no idea why...)

In the end, I just created a script like that

#!/bin/bash

(setxkbmap -query | grep "variant:\s\+intl") && (setxkbmap -model thinkpad -layout 'us') || (setxkbmap -model thinkpad -layout 'us' -variant 'intl')

And call it every time I hit a shortcut (Gnome > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Custom shortcuts).
It's not as pretty as I wanted (I don't have an icon in the task bar telling me which layout I'm using for example), but that should be enough for now. I'll try again later if I have some time to spare.