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Legogris

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Registered: 2012-09-11

Posts: 38

Keyboard layout sporadically reverts on external keyvboards

I am having some very weird behavior with my keyboard layouts on my Lenovo T440s.
I am switching between different layouts using a key combination. This usually works fine both with the laptop keyboard and USB and Bluetooth keyboards, but sometimes the following will happen:
* The layout is set to us
* The hotkey won't switch layouts on my external keyboard (other keys work fine)
* The hotkey still works on the laptop keyboard, but any keypress on an external keyboard reverts the layout to us again.

Effectively, I can only use the us layout on the external keyboard for the rest of my session. Rebooting always resolves the issue.

I have the following in my .xinitrc:

setxkbmap -layout "us, se" -option "grp:lalt_lshift_toggle" -option "caps:ctrl_modifier"

Last edited by Legogris (2015-11-28 01:06:20)

Legogris

Member

Registered: 2012-09-11

Posts: 38

Re: Keyboard layout sporadically reverts on external keyvboards

Update: I am now suspicious that sleep/hibernation might be a/the triggering factor. Also, running setxkbmap when this happens makes it work again (duh, should have tried that from the beginning). Still not sure how to not make this happen.