[solved ] £ sign not working on xorg keyboard-layout GB

sojot · 2021-06-15 10:03:29

Hi,

I'm trying to set up arch on a hp-laptop 14-dv0603na / 2Z6Y7EA#abu (UK model)

Outside of X, all keys are working fine (after setting locale and keymap etc.) however in X-server (with i3) not so much.

When I set "setxkbmap -layout gb" all seems fine except for the "£" sign.

Not knowing whether this would be model related I tried all models (from setxkbmap list-x11-keymap-models) that start with "hp" (my exact model is not on there) but this doesn't help, I haven't tried variants

I clearly don't know what I'm doing here, does anyone have any pointers

probably not very relevant but the £ sign should be on shift+3 when running showkey, shift+3 shows keycode 4, so it seems its receiving it (but i guess we knew that already)

UPDATE:
sorry but it seems the problem is actually with the terminal somehow (urxvt) when I open xterm (from a uxrvt terminal) the £ sign does show up. I wonder whether this has something to do with the font I chose for uxrvt

UPDATE:
tried just about every font, checked enabled options (urxvt --help) is has amonsts other stufff iso14755,unicode3,frills so not much further and still not working :-(

Last edited by sojot (2021-06-17 13:05:15)

seth · 2021-06-15 14:08:41

tried just about every font

fc-list | grep -iE 'dejavu.*mono'
urxvt -fn 'xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-9

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt … ideglyphs/ has more relaxed font handling

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#1 2021-06-15 10:03:29

[solved ] £ sign not working on xorg keyboard-layout GB

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Re: [solved ] £ sign not working on xorg keyboard-layout GB

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