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BastiL
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 Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:37 am Post subject: Two minor Plasma 5 issues |
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Hello,
after my upgrade to Plasma 5 which finally was sucessfull I have two minor issues:
- WLAN is not connecting automatically. I am asked to open "kwallet" by entering a password. I never configured it and therefore have no password for it ... After cancel I can enter the WLAN password manually, but I need to do it every time.
- Keyboard is set to US every time after start even if I define German layout as prefered one. I need to switch it manually in the taskbar.
Thanks for some hints. |
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Fitzcarraldo
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean the keyboard in the SDDM Desktop Manager?
I am using Plasma 5 in Gentoo Linux ~amd64 with OpenRC on my Compal NBLB2 laptop. The Display Manager I am using is SDDM, and the log-in screen was using the US keyboard layout, the only keyboard layout available in the log-in screen’s keyboard menu. Searching the Web told me that SDDM uses the keyboard layout specified in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf. The trouble is, it doesn’t (at least not in my case). The file already existed in my installation, and its contents are listed below:
| Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us,br,es"
Option "XkbVariant" ""
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection |
The X.Org keyboard layouts specified in the file are available once I have logged in to the Plasma 5 Desktop, but none of the four keyboards that I use (gb, us, br and es) were displayed by SDDM in its log-in screen menu. Eventually I discovered it is possible to specify the keyboard layouts in the file /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup which, by default, contains only the following:
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
# Xsetup - run as root before the login dialog appears |
I edited the file to contain the list of keyboards I wanted SDDM to allow me to choose from on the log-in screen:
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
# Xsetup - run as root before the login dialog appears
setxkbmap gb,us,br,es |
Now the SDDM log-in screen displays the national flags of those four keyboard languages in its keyboard menu, and I can select which keyboard layout to use for typing my password to log in to the Plasma 5 Desktop.
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BastiL
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| No, I mean Plasma itself. It has the US layout even I defined the German one as the prefered. I alway have to switch this manually by the task bar symbol. |
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Fitzcarraldo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have that problem with KDE Plasma 5, so I'll list here how my installation is configured in case it gives you any clues. If none of that helps, at the end of this post I give a work-around that should achieve the desired effect.
1. 'System Settings' > 'Hardware' > 'Input Devices'
a) 'Keyboard' in left pane > 'Layouts' tab
'Configure layouts' is ticked.
My preferred keyboard layout ('gb' in my case) is at the top of the list. I have the following keyboard layouts listed, as those are the keyboards I specified:
gb
us
br
es
b) 'Keyboard' in left pane > 'Advanced' tab
'Switching to another layout' is ticked, and, under that, 'Alt+Shift' is ticked.
2. I have both kde-apps/kde-l10n and kde-apps/kde4-l10n installed (I suppose some KDE 4 packages must have pulled the latter in).
3. My X11 keyboard configuration is in the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and I edited it to contain the same keyboards that I specified via the System Settings GUI in Plasma 5:
| Code: | fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Main Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection |
| Code: | fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us,br,es"
Option "XkbVariant" ""
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection
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4. For the console, I specified my preferred keyboard layout in /etc/conf.d/keymaps:
| Code: | fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ grep keymap /etc/conf.d/keymaps
# Use keymap to specify the default console keymap. There is a complete tree
# of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from.
keymap="uk"
# Should we first load the 'windowkeys' console keymap? Most x86 users will
# Loading this keymap will enable VT switching (like ALT+Left/Right)
extended_keymaps=""
#extended_keymaps="backspace keypad euro2" |
5. I have set up my locale for my preferred language (which coincides with my preferred keyboard layout):
| Code: | fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 |
6. The file /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup contains the list of keyboard layouts I use:
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
# Xsetup - run as root before the login dialogue appears
setxkbmap gb,us,br,es |
If you still cannot find the cause of your problem, you could create a simple Bash script that uses the setxkbmap command to set the keyboard layout to the one you want to use, and specify that script to run when you login to Plasma 5 ('System Settings' > 'Startup and Shutdown', 'Autostart' in left pane > 'Add Script...'). In my installation that does switch the layout shown on the Panel to the one specified by the command.
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
setxkbmap de |
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davidm
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:20 pm Post subject: Re: Two minor Plasma 5 issues |
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| BastiL wrote: | Hello,
after my upgrade to Plasma 5 which finally was sucessfull I have two minor issues:
- WLAN is not connecting automatically. I am asked to open "kwallet" by entering a password. I never configured it and therefore have no password for it ... After cancel I can enter the WLAN password manually, but I need to do it every time.
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It's been a while since I messed with wlan and kwallet but I believe you can just set it to a blank password and it will no longer hassle you. |
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BastiL
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Well for me a blank password does not work. |
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