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 Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:33 am Post subject: [SOLVED]How to change keyboard layout in LightDM |
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I have installed xfce with lightDM.
My problem is that i have a swiss keyboard, but the greeter of lightDM is set to "en_US.utf8" and there are no alternatives to choose from.
Following advice on posts to similar questions i have added an I /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf: | Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard-all"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch(de_nodeadkeys)"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection |
And to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf i added the line: | Code: | | display-setup-script=/usr/bin/setxkbmap ch |
But none of this did help.
Note that once logged in, i do have the correct keyboard layout.
The correct keyboard layout is also set when i go to a console with Alt-Ctrl-F1
These are the contents of my /etc/locale.gen: | Code: | en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_CH ISO-8859-1 |
How can i change the keyboard layout to the correct setting?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 11:02 am Post subject: Re: How to change keyboard layout in LightDM |
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| jody wrote: | I have installed xfce with lightDM.
My problem is that i have a swiss keyboard, but the greeter of lightDM is set to "en_US.utf8" and there are no alternatives to choose from.
Following advice on posts to similar questions i have added an I /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf: | Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard-all"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch(de_nodeadkeys)"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection |
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You tried
| Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard-all"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 11:52 am Post subject: |
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'de_nodeadkeys' is a keyboard variant, not a layout. See the contents of the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst for the permissible keyboard models, layouts, variants and options under the headings:
| Code: | $ cat /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst | grep "^\!"
! model
! layout
! variant
! option |
| Code: | $ awk '/\! layout/,/\! variant/' /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst | sed -e '1d;$d' | grep Swi
ch German (Switzerland)
$ awk '/\! variant/,/\! option/' /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst | sed -e '1d;$d' | grep Swi
legacy ch: German (Switzerland, legacy)
de_nodeadkeys ch: German (Switzerland, no dead keys)
de_sundeadkeys ch: German (Switzerland, with Sun dead keys)
fr ch: French (Switzerland)
fr_nodeadkeys ch: French (Switzerland, no dead keys)
fr_sundeadkeys ch: French (Switzerland, with Sun dead keys)
fr_mac ch: French (Switzerland, Macintosh)
de_mac ch: German (Switzerland, Macintosh) |
So, as fedeliallalinea pointed out, you're going to need:
| Code: | Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys" |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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I have now changed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf according to fideliallaline's suggestions: | Code: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard-all"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection |
But lightDM still offers only "en_US.utf8", even after rebooting. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| jody wrote: | | But lightDM still offers only "en_US.utf8", even after rebooting. |
I don't use lightdm but en_US is encoding or keyboard layout?
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Which Desktop Environment and init system are you using?
I do use LightDM (OpenRC installation), and have four keyboard layouts configured (I use various USB keyboards in different locations), with the default being en_GB (the first in the list of keyboard layouts in my X11 configuration file). I notice that the Identifier in the X11 configuration file in my installation is "keyboard", not "keyboard-all", and the X11 configuration file does not explicitly mention the evdev driver:
| Code: | $ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
10-evdev.conf 20opengl.conf 30-keyboard.conf 50-synaptics.conf |
| Code: | $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
# See /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst for Options.
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us,br,es"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
# Option "XkbVariant" ""
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection |
Try the following instead of what you are using now:
| Code: | $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
# See /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst for Options.
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys"
EndSection |
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jody
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently "en_US.utf8" is a locale.
When i run the command 'locale' on my computer, i get: | Code: | LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
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So i tried to change my locale: | Code: | $ sudo eselect locale list
Available targets for the LANG variable:
[1] C
[2] de_CH
[3] de_CH.iso88591 *
[4] en_US
[5] en_US.iso88591
[6] en_US.utf8
[7] POSIX
[ ] (free form)
$ . /etc/profile
$ locale
LANG=de_CH.iso88591
LC_CTYPE="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_NUMERIC="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_TIME="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_COLLATE="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_MONETARY="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_MESSAGES="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_PAPER="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_NAME="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_ADDRESS="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_CH.iso88591"
LC_ALL=
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which looked good, but when i logged out, lightDM was still set to "en_US.utf8", also after restarting my computer.
When i logged in again, the "locale" command showed all entries were reset to "en_US.utf8".
So maybe this is not the solution to my problem... |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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See my previous post. Also, you need to do the following after you set a new locale:
| Code: | # env-update && source /etc/profile
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Also check in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED what locales you can specify in /etc/locale.gen:
| Code: | $ grep CH /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_CH ISO-8859-1
fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_CH ISO-8859-1
it_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
it_CH ISO-8859-1
wae_CH UTF-8 |
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jody
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:28 am Post subject: |
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I added the locale 'de_CH.utf8' to my locales, and then did | Code: | | env-update && source /etc/profile |
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I left the line | Code: | | display-setup-script=/usr/bin/setxkbmap ch |
in '/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf'.
Next time i logged in, lightDM let me choose between 'en_US.utf8' and 'de_CH.utf8', so i'm happy now with this.
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