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NaceD

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setxkbmap slovene

Hello, I have a problem with this command: setxkbmap slovene. Gives me an error: Error loading new keyboard description and in no way refuses to work I tried almost everything I found on the Internet. Most other keyboards work (US, DE, CH). Please help.

GeorgeJP

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Re: setxkbmap slovene

Is not for slovenian used 'si' ?

Trilby

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Re: setxkbmap slovene

Do you have a slovene keymap?  One is not provided by the xkeyboard-config package (which provides other keymaps).  That is there is no "sl" keymap, but there might be a suitable one that goes by another name.  In any case, you can only use setxkbmap to set existing kbmaps.

EDIT: see above - 'si' is most likely what you want.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-02-16 21:17:46)

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NaceD

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Re: setxkbmap slovene

Thanks for the response,
but my problem is not solved because I found this keymap with command localectl list-keymaps and it is called slovene but still does not work. In the console works with command loadkeys slovene which also does not work in my terminal. So I don't know what to do keymap is definitely correct.

Trilby

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Re: setxkbmap slovene

Yes, but that has nothing to do with your problem / question:

list-keymaps
           List available keyboard mappings for the console, useful for configuration with set-keymap

If instead you want to set the keymap for your Xorg session using xsetkbmap, you need to use one of the mappings under /usr/share/X11/xkb/.

These can be found with `localectl list-x11-keymap-layouts` which will not include "slovene" but will include "si".

Last edited by Trilby (2022-02-17 13:45:28)

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NaceD

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Re: setxkbmap slovene

Thank you very much. That solved my problem. You've helped me a lot.