[SOLVED] Keyboard Layout does not change

pdneves · 2019-02-06 20:04:03

Hello,

I have installed Arch with KDE, and no matter what I try the keyboard does not change from US, either with konsole or within KDE. I had installed 2 weeks ago and everything was working, now yesterday I formatted and installed again and now I cant change it.
Is there anything else I can try? I have US layout and want to use the Portuguese, my locale is set as en_GB.

Thank you.

EDIT: This is solved here.

Last edited by pdneves (2019-02-07 11:10:02)

Slithery · 2019-02-06 20:12:30

How are you trying to change the layout?

IIRC you'll need to use KDE's settings for this as it overrides settings that you may have made elsewhere.

pdneves · 2019-02-06 20:25:45

Slithery wrote:

How are you trying to change the layout?
IIRC you'll need to use KDE's settings for this as it overrides settings that you may have made elsewhere.

I have tried it, still US all the time. Its just weird, never ran into this.

pdneves · 2019-02-06 20:29:22

During install I did loadkeys pt-latin9 and it was working, after installing KDE either Konsole or inside the DE its US and does not change.

seth · 2019-02-06 22:01:30

loadkeys is for the console and as no impact on GUI sessions (nor on GUI terminals like konsole)
=> Output of "setxkbmap -print -query"?

pdneves · 2019-02-06 22:14:41

seth wrote:

loadkeys is for the console and as no impact on GUI sessions (nor on GUI terminals like konsole)
=> Output of "setxkbmap -print -query"?

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)"     };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     };
};
rules:      evdev
model:      pc104
layout:     us

This is from this fresh install, I didnt touch / try anything this time.

seth · 2019-02-06 22:24:03

Ok, rather after trying to alter it ;-)

pdneves · 2019-02-06 22:29:10

Doesnt matter what I change, its the same. I have installed KDE and then XFCE because I was thinking that was a KDE problem with the same result.

seth · 2019-02-06 22:59:47

Let's see: "setxkbmap -layout pt; setxkbmap -print -query"

peterklarc · 2019-02-06 23:26:28

You can check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243986 same problem here
=> Output of "setxkbmap -print -query"

xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+pt+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc101)"	};
};
rules:      evdev
model:      pc101
layout:     pt
options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle

cmmps · 2019-02-06 23:50:56

Hi there! I am having the same issue. I got my system working perfectly with Portuguese layout but after the last update I only get US.
Besides, in the console, I can not even change the layout to Portuguese!

$ loadkeys pt-latin1
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
$ loadkeys pt-latin9
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

In KDE, I also have the Portuguse layout selected for my keyboard but it does not change from US.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Carlos Santos

loqs · 2019-02-06 23:55:23

Downgrade xkeyboard-config to 2.25. If the package is not in the cache Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_downgrade_one_package.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61634

cmmps · 2019-02-07 00:07:06

Thanks! That solved my problem!
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GreenTuxer · 2019-02-07 10:31:35

I had the same issue, also pt keyboard.

I had a message reporting the error was related to wrong syntax on keyboard layout file.
So I edited the pt keyboard file (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pt), had a syntax error on group for "Portuguese Colemak" layout, as I do not use that layout, backed up the file and removed that section, after reboot everything is fine.

Let's hope next version has this corrected.

pdneves · 2019-02-07 11:07:13

loqs wrote:

Downgrade xkeyboard-config to 2.25. If the package is not in the cache Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_downgrade_one_package.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61634

Problem solved using this method (thanks loqs). I will mark the problem as solved since there is a solution and it's a bug that needs fixing.

Thank you all for your time.

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