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schorsch_76
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 Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:15 pm Post subject: [Solved] Plasma: Cant add keyboard layout |
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Hi,
after several years i installed a fresh gentoo on my box. The last time was about as gcc 5 was recent. Maybe 8 years ago.... Some of my knowledge about gentoo is outdated or forgotten 
My profile is default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma. So with openrc.
I installed kde-plasma/plasma-meta with the use flags "colord sddm bluetooth crypt cups pulseaudio". When i start sddm and log into kde as my regular user i try to switch the keyboar din the KDE settings to "german". Then i try to preview it and it reports: "The keyboard geometry failed to load." There is also no german flag symbol on the selection list like in the gentoo live dvd that i used to install gentoo.
On the console /dev/tty1 the keyboard is ok. I set it in /etc/conf.d/keymaps.
The wiki page [1] didn't help me ....
Any help would be welcome 
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout_switching#KDE_Plasma
EDIT: Ok ... i am on wayland and my displaymanager is sddm.
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hedmo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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schorsch_76
i have two layouts on all my systems . the layouts is en/us and swedish. i setup them via system settings > keyboard > layouts and add the layouts i want . i have my shortcuts on meta+space. on sddm i cannot help much because most of my systems have only a black screen with _ in the upper left corner. the only one that is working are running wayland with rotation and the option to switch between layouts . i have no configuration for that. it just worked.
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Ralphred
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I did it with an xorg.conf stub | /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-keyboard.conf: | Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
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My rationale for that is the layout needs to be correct for password entry in your DM's greeter. |
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schorsch_76
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| Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Now it works
In make.conf i set L10N="de en-US" and LINGUAS="de en" and a deep newuse changed-use update and it worked
Classic: Problem existed between keyboard and chair
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