I’ve just moved over to manjaro from kubuntu after 15 years… There’s been one major stumbling stone and it’s doing my head in: I’m using an Apple Keyboard with a German layout. When using KDE-Plasma apps, such as Kwrite, or some other apps like Libreoffice everything works perfectly well. All the regional settings in KDE are correct. But in Firefox / Thunderbird or most of the other apps, the keyboard layout changes to a standard US layout! I’ve checked all the respective configuration files (/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf, /etc/locale.conf). Everything looks fine and consistent. The only solution: after logging in I have to enter Manjaro-system-settings and change the keyboard from US-English to the German layout. After a restart however, I have to follow the same procedure again. Any help would be appreciated!
So I had to use a dirty workaround. I created a script to execute setxkbmap de after startup… That’s however not ideal.
so: non KDE apps are not respecting/using the set keyboard layout?
Cave:
I have close to zero experience with KDE - I use Xfce instead
1.) Manjaro has a tool for adjusting these kind of settings - msm is the name, IIRC (Manjaro Settings Manager)
2.) KDE seems to also add it’s own ways of addressing the same … which might interfere
… don’t really know because I do not use it
3.)
aside from that:
what do these commands yield?
grep -v ^# /etc/locale.gen
cat /etc/locale.conf
locale
locale -a
Thanks, guys. The script worked flawlessly. However, I had to reinstall the whole system due to a dualboot disaster. I made sure that everything was set up correctly durimg installation and the problem is gone.