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irondude

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Registered: 2018-06-23

Posts: 12

System doesn't accept values in /etc/vconsole.conf

I freshly installed Arch and so far. I want the system to be in english but use a german keyboard. So I added

KEYMAP=de-latin1
FONT=ter-132n

rebooted and nothing happened. I also noticed when I do

loadkeys de-latin1

Nothing changes as well.

fullinator

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Registered: 2018-07-01

Posts: 3

Re: System doesn't accept values in /etc/vconsole.conf

Have you tried checking if the locale is even available?

localectl list-keymaps

How about the current locale that's set?

localectl status

/etc/vconsole.conf should be read by systemd on startup. Perhaps the file is formatted wrong? You could always try setting the persistent key map using:

localectl set-keymap --no-convert keymap

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: System doesn't accept values in /etc/vconsole.conf

Are we talking about a TTY, X, or Wayland?

It's only the TTY's that are configured using /etc/vconsole.conf.

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irondude

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Registered: 2018-06-23

Posts: 12

Re: System doesn't accept values in /etc/vconsole.conf

Have you tried checking if the locale is even available?

localectl list-keymaps

It is there.

How about the current locale that's set?

localectl status

Says:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: de-latin1
X11 Layout: n/a

/etc/vconsole.conf should be read by systemd on startup. Perhaps the file is formatted wrong? You could always try setting the persistent key map using:

localectl set-keymap --no-convert keymap

done that. Didn't help.

Are we talking about a TTY, X, or Wayland?

It's only the TTY's that are configured using /etc/vconsole.conf.

Its not working in neither. I use X with gdm3. But I get the correct layout (german) if I want. But I need it also in the TTY.
But in the TTY I only have US keymap. Even at the start when I need to give the passphrase for the luks partition. It works but its the "wrong" layout.

Last edited by irondude (2018-07-03 21:06:58)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,843

Re: System doesn't accept values in /etc/vconsole.conf

Even Especially at the start when I need to give the passphrase for the luks partition.

cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm … mkinitcpio

For X11 see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg

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WalkerTalker

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Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 1

Re: System doesn't accept values in /etc/vconsole.conf

I also run into the same problem.

After the system boot into TTY

Check status

localectl status

produces

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: jp106
X11 Layout: n/a

Check vconsole.conf

cat /etc/vconsole.conf

produces

KEYMAP=jp106

However, my layout is still US. I have to issue

sudo loadkeys jp106

every time after booting if I want to use Japanese keyboard.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,843

Re: System doesn't accept values in /etc/vconsole.conf

Afaics that's not the same issue, because irondude seems to be concerned about the luks decryption, ie. the initramfs.
For you however either vconsole.conf is either not parsed or at some point overridden or /usr/share/kbd/keymaps is not mounted when the system tries to set the locale.
Please open a new thread and there also paste a complete journal of the current boot.

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