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vlast777

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Registered: 2015-02-10

Posts: 57

Unity for Arch: Keyboard Layout not correct

Hey there,

I just set up a fresh copy of Arch and installed Unity for Arch to it.
The Problem is: though I started it via gdm, lxdm and LightDM Unity appears to not be using the german Keyboard Layout like it should, but the American.

When I start it via startx / .xinitrc I have the german Layout, but I am missing all Colours and Styles from Unity (even if they are setup in the preferences it doesn't apply them).

Here is the output of my .conf files when I am on Unity with the wrong keyboard layout:

locale:

$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

/etc/vconsole.conf

KEYMAP=de-latin1

/etc/locale.gen

(...)
#de_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8
#de_BE ISO-8859-1
#de_BE@euro ISO-8859-15
#de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
#de_CH ISO-8859-1
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
#de_LU.UTF-8 UTF-8
#de_LU ISO-8859-1
#de_LU@euro ISO-8859-15
(...)

And there is no option to change keyboard Layout in Unity settings.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT:
I also installed the "indicator-keyboard" package from the AUR which is said to be a tool to switch between different keyboard Layouts but i couldn't figure out how to use it.
I just now that there's a file called like that in /usr/lib.

Last edited by vlast777 (2015-02-10 18:58:14)

vlast777

Member

Registered: 2015-02-10

Posts: 57

Re: Unity for Arch: Keyboard Layout not correct

Okay, nevermind.
Now Iam starting via KDM and it seems to work.