Wrong keyboard layout

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Waterdevil · Post by **Waterdevil** » Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:49 am

Hello World,

once upon a time suddently my keyboard layout has changed. It is so long ago, that I don't know why.

for characters | \ @ and so on I have to press my left-alt-key.
Meta key (windows) to display application overview has no function any more.
Ctrl-v to paste something into firefox search input field doesn't work.

Where can I reset all this to default?

I have gnome desktop 3.30.

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emerge --info
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the only config I have for X:

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cat nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-enable-ctrl-alt-backspace.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier      "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
    Option          "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

but this doesn't work!

Many thanks

charles17 · Post by **charles17** » Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:40 am

Is your problem with console or with X?
Have you read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout_switching?

mike155 · Post by **mike155** » Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:36 pm

What happens if you specify a keyboard model and a keyboard layout?

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Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
        Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

Waterdevil · Post by **Waterdevil** » Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:07 pm

Is your problem with console or with X?

I cannot switch with Ctrl-Alt-F1,... to console, but would like to have it.

Problem is in gnome-desktop, in all application windows like firefox, xfce4-terminal, libre-office.

charles17 · Post by **charles17** » Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:15 am

Waterdevil wrote:Problem is in gnome-desktop, in all application windows like firefox, xfce4-terminal, libre-office.

If you tried a simple wm like twm instead, does the problem persist?

Waterdevil · Post by **Waterdevil** » Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:18 pm

I tried with lightdm (can't get twm working), but problem persists.

charles17 · Post by **charles17** » Fri Dec 13, 2019 7:23 am

Waterdevil wrote:I tried with lightdm (can't get twm working), but problem persists.

You might want to temporarily disable all display manager and try startx

alexander-n8hgeg5e · Post by **alexander-n8hgeg5e** » Fri Dec 13, 2019 10:27 pm

Probably, some program is switching it at some time.
You can set layouts from building blocks with setxkbmap
If you want default us keymap for example "setxkbmap us"
There are two things i think, startx and xinit.
xinit is the more low level i think.
It runs what is in .xinitrc as your desktop prog and runs the xserver.
Maybe startx runs this file too , at some point.

Waterdevil · Post by **Waterdevil** » Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:05 pm

I know setxkbmap, I tried it but it changes nothing.

alexander-n8hgeg5e · Post by **alexander-n8hgeg5e** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:17 pm

Waterdevil wrote:I know setxkbmap, I tried it but it changes nothing.

What do xev report?
Are you under X?
If yes, you can pull the active keymap with xkbcomp $DISPLAY filename.
You can hack it and loadit with xkbcomp filename $DISPLAY.
But save your work. Even the xserver can crash.
Maybe your xserver refuses to do that, no xkb extension , who knows...
Then you know where to search.

sebB · Post by **sebB** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:56 pm

Have you look in settings / country and language?

Then in périphériques / keyboard you have the "all reset' command for shortcuts.