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Re: Can't change keyboard layout

Reply #1 –
Weird.

The keymap service uses the command loadkeys.

What happens if you try that command as root, in a tty login (not a terminal in X)
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loadkeys slovene
I just tried that and my Y key changed to a Z.
So that worked.

Obviously it won't fix your overall issue but I'd be curious if it works?

Re: Can't change keyboard layout

Reply #2 –
Loadkeys works. Thats why it was so weird for me.

Re: Can't change keyboard layout

Reply #3 –
Quote from: MartinCo – on
Loadkeys works. Thats why it was so weird for me.

Looking a bit more your actual error comes after the service attempts to change the terminal encoding with the command kbd_mode
   
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# Set terminal encoding to either ASCII or UNICODE.
	# See utf-8(7) for more information.
	ebegin "Setting keyboard mode [$msg]"
	n=1
	while [ $n -le $ttyn ]; do
		kbd_mode $kmode -C $ttydev$n
		: $(( n += 1 ))
	done
	eend 0

There's a bit of code above which seem to decide on Ascii or Unicode based on what $windowkeys is set to.
Try setting windowskeys="YES" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps and see what happens ?
 

Re: Can't change keyboard layout

Reply #5 –
The above post worked. Thank you guys.