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nameiwillforget

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Registered: 2019-08-10

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[Solved] Keymap broke after update

Sorry for keeping this short. I just rebooted after an update and now the keymap does not work. The layout is still listed in Gnome settings, and still appears at the top of the list in the upper right corner, but the keyboard is set to qwerty. I normally use adnw, a German-English optimized layout, but I tried using setxkbmap for adnw/neo/dvorak and it always returns "Error loading new keyboard description". Generally, the error seems similar to this one:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128533

Please help! Typing is a nightmare like this!

Last edited by nameiwillforget (2021-03-17 15:54:47)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Keymap broke after update

Typing is a nightmare like this!

Heyyyy… many of us live in this "nightmare"…

On topic: is this maybe a wayland session?
What's the output of "setxkbmap -print -query"?
The de symbols look intact, what's the output of "pacman -Qikk xkeyboard-config"?
The sundeadkeys variant was removed from the german layout and "sun_vndr/de" has some adnw references, does that ring a bell?

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nameiwillforget

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Registered: 2019-08-10

Posts: 27

Re: [Solved] Keymap broke after update

Well, it is not so much the layout itself, but you forget it amazingly fast when using another one. I can only type by looking at the symbols!

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(pc105)"    };
};
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us

But pacman -Qikk xkeyboard-config

ame            : xkeyboard-config
Version         : 2.32-1
Description     : X keyboard configuration files
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwa … oardConfig
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : xkbdata
Depends On      : None
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : gnome-desktop  libxkbcommon  libxklavier  xorg-server-common
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : xkbdata
Replaces        : xkbdata
Installed Size  : 5.64 MiB
Packager        : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Wed 17 Feb 2021 04:20:22 PM CET
Install Date    : Wed 03 Mar 2021 10:22:24 PM CET
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum

warning: xkeyboard-config: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/level3 (Modification time mismatch)
warning: xkeyboard-config: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/level3 (Size mismatch)
xkeyboard-config: 459 total files, 1 altered file

And I think I can see the problem, which was me tinkering with the level3 symbols. Sorry, that is my own fault, I forgot to finish that and did not reboot for a while! I will try to fix it and mark it as solved if I do.