keymap change in X/Openbox

27 November 2020, 11:32:03

My first post on this forum, hello everyone :-)
Running Artix for last couple of weeks, generally working as expected, just couple of small annoyances...

keymap - i set it wrong during setup, managed to configure right one (uk) by changing
/etc/conf.d/keymaps, works good under TTY but not on xsession.
I`m not using a session manager, starting X on login by .xinitrc and .bashrc in home folder.
Any tips on that?
Thanks,

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[nbd@artixlinux ~]$ cat /etc/conf.d/keymaps

keymap="uk"
windowkeys="yes"
extended_keymaps=""
dumpkeys_charset=""
fix_euro="NO"

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[nbd@artixlinux ~]$ cat /home/nbd/.xinitrc
xbindkeys
openbox-session

Re: keymap change in X/Openbox

Reply #1 – 27 November 2020, 13:13:00

setting keyboard for X session is done normally through /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

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 cat /etc X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf 
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "uk"
EndSection

as decribed here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration#Setting_keyboard_layout

I use /etc X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf and have no problem

but you can use setxkbmap too. Just follow wiki.archlinux.org as usually ;-)