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Operating Systems Linux [archLinux] keymap not applied? Post 302946317 by sea on Monday 8th of June 2015 07:04:40 AM

06-08-2015

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[archLinux] keymap not applied?

Heyas

-Just- installed Arch, and having difficulties to understand why my keyboard layout still is en_US, eventhough i had set it to be de_CH. *UTF-8 obviously*
This applies to console AND X.

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ont_and_keymap
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...default_locale
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...wrong_language

However, its (the fonts) not been a -manual- installation as from a tarball, but using AUR (pacman).

Arch:

Code:

0 ~ $ localectl
   System Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: ch
      X11 Layout: n/a

0 ~ $ grep -v '#' /etc/{locale,vconsole}.conf 
/etc/locale.conf:LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
/etc/vconsole.conf:KEYMAP=ch
/etc/vconsole.conf:FONT=eurlatgr

grep -v '#' /etc/locale.gen 
de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8  
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Fedora: (this was just taken as reference to be sure i used the same settings, as they work there)

Code:

# localectl output was copypasted before rebooting
    System Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: ch
      X11 Layout: ch

tmp/etc/locale.conf:LANG="de_CH.UTF-8"
tmp/etc/vconsole.conf:KEYMAP="ch"
tmp/etc/vconsole.conf:FONT="eurlatgr"

Dont tell me its the quotes, there are no quotes in the wiki.
Any ideas please? (aka; what did i miss?)
Thank you in advance.

NOTE:
I've been trying to install system-config-language, but there is no such package in AUR ( pacman -Q sys) (i used to use that tool on my fedora installation using awesome wm)

Even having LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 awesome & in xinitrc doesnt help to get my keymap loaded Smilie

Any ideas / advice please?

---------- Post updated at 13:04 ---------- Previous update was at 11:09 ----------

Err, please note that the -ch- is invalid for Arch, though, its set in Fedora and seems to work.
Set it back to -sg-, and having swiss german on console again, yay login/decrypt password Smilie

But still, in X i'm confronted with that annoying en_US layout.

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vconsole.conf

VCONSOLE.CONF(5)						   vconsole.conf						  VCONSOLE.CONF(5)

NAME

       vconsole.conf - configuration file for the virtual console

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/vconsole.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/vconsole.conf file configures the virtual console, i.e. keyboard mapping and console font.

       The basic file format of the vconsole.conf is a newline-separated list environment-like shell-compatible variable assignments. It is
       possible to source the configuration from shell scripts, however, beyond mere variable assignments no shell features are supported,
       allowing applications to read the file without implementing a shell compatible execution engine.

       Note that the kernel command line options vconsole.keymap=, vconsole.keymap.toggle=, vconsole.font=, vconsole.font.map=,
       vconsole.font.unimap= may be used to override the console settings at boot.

       Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be checked for configuration of the virtual console as well, however only
       as fallback.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       KEYMAP=, KEYMAP_TOGGLE=
	   Configures the key mapping table of for they keyboard.  KEYMAP= defaults to us if not set. The KEYMAP_TOGGLE= can be used to configured
	   a second toggle keymap and is by default unset.

       FONT=, FONT_MAP=, FONT_UNIMAP=
	   Configures the console font, the console map and the unicode font map.  FONT= defaults to latarcyrheb-sun16.

EXAMPLE

       Example 1. German keyboard and console

       /etc/vconsole.conf:

	   KEYMAP=de-latin1
	   FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), loadkeys(1), setfont(8), locale.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
	   Developer

systemd 							    10/07/2013							  VCONSOLE.CONF(5)