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Nono3167

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 19

vconsole has no effect on TTY consoles

Hi everyone,

I have been using Archlinux on my laptop for a few years now.
Last week I bought a new laptop and installed Arch on it.
After following the installation guide and fixing a few issues related to my laptop model (Dell 9560), I have a small problem concerning vconsole setting.

As I am french and using a french keyboard, I have set vconsole.conf file to this :

KEYMAP=fr

I am using SDDM and KDE/Plasma 5 as desktop environment. When loggin in through SDDM and using Plasma, the keyboard is set correctly to the french layout (azerty).
If I go into a TTY with CtrL+alt+Fx however, I end up with the basic english qwerty layout.

I have checked the settings of the vconsole and other files like /etc/locale.conf on my previous arch running laptop and they are currently the same.

I have seen this post from a few days ago (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227717) and have tried using the script to log loadkeymaps calls. Unfortunately as for the author of the topic, the file was not created in /tmp meaning no call to loadkeys were done at startup.

If anyone has a solution or an idea on how to investigate this further I would greatly appreciate it

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: vconsole has no effect on TTY consoles

Did you try https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1721602

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Nono3167

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 19

Re: vconsole has no effect on TTY consoles

Sorry I missed that bit.

So if I run "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup" from TTY2, the keyboard gets set to the french layout correctly.

I tried using the script instead of this systemd-vconsole-setup to log calls. It seems to be called once on startup (before I login to SDDM).