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#1 2022-04-03 12:38:30
- vccrurial
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stuck in dwm with non-egnlish keyboard layout
wanted to add multiple keyboard layouts for arch linux. did it. now i can type in russian. but cannot change it back to english to manage dwm. MOD-Shift-q aren't working to exit dwm. i am stuck...
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#2 2022-04-03 13:31:35
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Re: stuck in dwm with non-egnlish keyboard layout
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Make *some* effort.
Explain what you *actually* did - start w/ "setxkbmap -print -query" and also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/K … rd_layouts and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xkb-switch
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#3 2022-04-03 13:38:18
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Re: stuck in dwm with non-egnlish keyboard layout
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Make *some* effort.
Explain what you *actually* did - start w/ "setxkbmap -print -query" and also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/K … rd_layouts and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xkb-switch
I don't remember that much. I uncommented some strings in locale.gen, then generated new locales. After that I remember typing something like "loadkeys ru". After rebooting, I logged in and keyboard layout changed to russian. And I don't know to recover english. All I can is open new terminals with dwm (because it's not bind to english letter). But cannot use it with russian keyboard.
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#4 2022-04-03 13:43:35
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Re: stuck in dwm with non-egnlish keyboard layout
Locales don't relate to the keyboard layout and "loadkeys" is for the konsole - not X11/dwm.
The console configuration is in /etc/vconsole.conf - if that file is empty, you'll boot to an english keyboard layout (on the console - X11/dwm is a different matter - see the posted links)
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#5 2022-04-03 13:56:01
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Re: stuck in dwm with non-egnlish keyboard layout
Locales don't relate to the keyboard layout and "loadkeys" is for the konsole - not X11/dwm.
The console configuration is in /etc/vconsole.conf - if that file is empty, you'll boot to an english keyboard layout (on the console - X11/dwm is a different matter - see the posted links)
Problem: all I can type is in russian. Therefore I cannot use my terminal. All can I do is open new terminals because it's not bind to eng letter and turn on/off system. I am looking for a way to recover english.
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#6 2022-04-03 13:59:36
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Re: stuck in dwm with non-egnlish keyboard layout
Problem: you don't understand the difference between the console and some terminal emulator in X11?
See the 2nd link below on how to boot into a console if you've set a DM/startx graphical.target and if you've indeed configured vconsole.conf to be russian, you'll have to fix the system offline (eg. from the installation iso or some live distro like grml)
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