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Ferchu

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 55

Problem with plasma keyboard layout

Hello!
Whenever I turn on or reboot the PC, a keyboard icon featuring the US flag appears in the taskbar. Clicking on it only gives me the option to choose “US English”.
However, when I go to System Settings > Keyboard > Layouts, I only have one option: 'Spanish from Spain'.
I have to delete that layout, apply the changes, select “Spanish from Spain” again and apply the changes again. Then, finally, I have my desired Spanish keyboard layout and the taskbar flag disappears, which makes sense because I only have one option (although it used to appear and I also only had one option).
What do I need to do or change so that, whenever I start up, I have the Spanish layout (or whichever one I choose)?
Thank you.

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Ferchu

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 55

Re: Problem with plasma keyboard layout

Hi...
15 days and no reply, clue or help in any way?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Problem with plasma keyboard layout

What's your output for

locale
locale -a
localectl
setxkbmap -print -query
cat ~/.config/kxbrc

Ferchu

Member

From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 55

Re: Problem with plasma keyboard layout

Thank you V1del.

locale:

LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
   LC_CTYPE="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_NUMERIC="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_TIME="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_COLLATE="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_MONETARY="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_MESSAGES="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_PAPER="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_NAME="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_ADDRESS="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_TELEPHONE="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_MEASUREMENT="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_AR.UTF-8"
   LC_ALL=

locale -a

C
   C.utf8
   es_AR.utf8
   POSIX

localectl:

System Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
   VC Keymap: es
   X11 Layout: es

cat ~/.config/kxbrc

cat: /home/fernando/.config/kxbrc: No existe el fichero o el directorio

(no file found)

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Fernando Pucci
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V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Problem with plasma keyboard layout

mhm? Is your .config writeable or are you doing some XDG env shenanigans?

printenv | grep XDG
stat .config

as that file missing would explain why the config does not stick (and please use code not quote tags for outputs)

Last edited by V1del (2025-06-19 02:02:37)

Ferchu

Member

From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 55

Re: Problem with plasma keyboard layout

Hello V1del
Thank you

printenv | grep XDG

XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/home/fernando/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma-
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_VTNR=2
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000

stat .config

Fichero: .config
Tamaño: 12288         Bloques: 24         Bloque E/S: 4096   directorio
Device: 8,1     Inode: 4983666     Links: 54
Acceso: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: ( 1000/fernando)   Gid: (  984/   users)
Acceso: 2025-06-19 17:53:59.281588488 -0300
Modificación: 2025-06-19 17:53:13.750160091 -0300
Cambio: 2025-06-19 17:53:13.750160091 -0300
Creación: 2021-07-06 12:46:24.813332541 -0300

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drmoose

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Registered: 2018-03-15

Posts: 4

Re: Problem with plasma keyboard layout

I came across your post trying to solve the same problem. My problem turned out to be caused by fcitx5, which launches on session startup and reconfigures the keyboard independently of the KDE settings. Its configuration files are in ~/.config/fcitx5, and on my system included the settings for my old keyboard. Since I'm not using any fcitx features (and don't remember why it's installed) I just pacman -R'd it to solve my issue.

Even if that's not what's causing your problem, the workaround I was using in the meantime may help:  I added an entry to Autostart that runs setxkbmap es. This DIDN'T work for me until I put it in a loop like this:

#!/bin/bash
for x in {1..100}; do
  setxkbmap es
  sleep .1
done

Needing to write this loop was how I figured out that some other auto-starting program must have been causing my problem.

(@mods: sorry if this counts as a necrobump... only two months old and exactly the same problem; if I hadn't found a solution I'd have started my own thread linking this one)