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bloat

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Registered: 2021-04-05

Posts: 5

Change keyboard layout in XFCE+Mutter

Hello, I am trying to change my keyboard layout to ro+std and us+euro.
I am using xfce as de but mutter as wm.
Because I know gnome overwrites the xkb configuration, I have in dconf settings, input-sources [('xkb', 'us+euro'), ('xkb', 'ro+std')] as sources and ['grp:lalt_lshift_toggle'] as xkb-options.
setxkbmap -query returns:

rules:      evdev
model:      pc86
layout:     us,ro
variant:    euro,std
options:    grp:lalt_lshift_toggle

because I have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10.evdev.conf:

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
	Driver "evdev"
	Option "xkbmodel" "pc86"
	Option "xkb_layout" "us,ro"
	Option "xkb_variant" "euro,std"
	Option "xkb_options" "grp:lalt_lshift_toggle"
EndSection

but when I press alt+shift the keyboard layout doesn't change.
Any solutions?

eri

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Registered: 2013-09-14

Posts: 5

Re: Change keyboard layout in XFCE+Mutter

same issue. Tell me if you successed with it

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 50,965

Re: Change keyboard layout in XFCE+Mutter

"pc86" looks like a problem, what does "lalt + lshift" actually produce in "xev -event keyboard"?

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