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Vandroiy

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Registered: 2024-07-14

Posts: 2

Trouble setting the keyboard layout in Cinnamon on Wayland

Hello everyone

I am new to Arch and was able to make my way through the tutorials

What is a little embarrassing at the moment is that I fail to change the keyboard layout to sg-latin1 for Cinnamon running on Wayland.
The setting in the /etc/vconsole.conf is working just fine for the console.
When running the Keyboard app from the system settings I only see two tabs there 'Typing' and 'Shortcuts' but I cannot find a setting anywhere for changing the keyboard layout.

Running localectl from the console shows me:

System Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
VC Keymap: sg-latin1
X11 Layout: (unset)

Do I have to set the X11 layout even when I am on Wayland?   

I have tried running

localectl set-x11-keymap sg-latin1

for a test but this only gives me Failed to set keymap: Specified keymap cannot be compiled, refusing as invalid.

Could anyone give me a hint to the right direction, please?

Vandroiy

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,223

Re: Trouble setting the keyboard layout in Cinnamon on Wayland

Doesn't work yet if this project trello and github bug report is to be believed: https://trello.com/c/TDSJ4CjX/30-no-keyboard-switching https://github.com/linuxmint/wayland/issues/14 -- Wayland on cinnamon is very much in alpha state from what I understand.

Last edited by V1del (2024-07-14 23:03:44)

Vandroiy

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Registered: 2024-07-14

Posts: 2

Re: Trouble setting the keyboard layout in Cinnamon on Wayland

Thank you for your response, especially for pointing out the GitHub article.

So Cinnamon is not yet an option for me. Or Wayland. Or both

Vandroiy