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Morgy

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Registered: 2013-08-21

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Keyboard layout not setting correctly after gnome 3.14 update

Hey all,

After the gnome 3.14 update my keyboard appears to be reverting to US when I want to have it set to UK layout. It was fine before the update, and I have i3 & XFCE installed and for both of those my keyboard layout is getting set to UK just fine, so it appears to be just the gnome 3.14 update that is the problem.

Here is my contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier             "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard	   "yes"
    Option	           "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?

Last edited by Morgy (2014-10-18 17:18:09)

marcov

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Registered: 2014-06-04

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard layout not setting correctly after gnome 3.14 update

I also had the same issue, but found out how to fix this.

I went to the Settings > Regions & Languages section, where you explicitly need to add English (UK) underneath the Input Sources section.

Hope it works for you too!
Cheers,
Marco.

Morgy

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Registered: 2013-08-21

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard layout not setting correctly after gnome 3.14 update

Ah, yeah that did the trick! Thanks marcov!

chrisberkhout

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Registered: 2014-04-24

Posts: 5

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard layout not setting correctly after gnome 3.14 update

My situation showed an extra issue related to this change.

After the upgrade I started getting two layouts (us,us) instead of just one (us).

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc104
layout:     us,us
variant:    ,
options:    ctrl:nocaps

That broke my variant setting, which was altgr-intl (set via /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf). I was able to manually set that to "altgr-intl,altgr-intl" (with setxkbmap), and that worked.

After adding an input source as described above, of "English (international AltGr dead keys)", everything started working again for my purposes, without manually running setxkbmap, but I still have the extra layout:

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc104
layout:     us,us
variant:    altgr-intl,
options:    ctrl:nocaps

Does anyone know a current method for completely disabling GNOME's keyboard management?
(I've tried several things from Google, but nothing seems to work for the current version).

opalepatrick

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Registered: 2014-10-17

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard layout not setting correctly after gnome 3.14 update

And thanks from me too marcov. Saves having to reset it via setxkbmap every session!