Keyboard layout switched from German to English after [Testing Update] 2025-07-03

Zauberer-Merlin · 3 July 2025 11:57

on one of my notebooks I do have trouble with the keyboard layout.
It was German, after the update from today it switched to English (US).

Even if I try to switch it via manjaro-settings-manager to back to German, it does not work *Fehler. Tastaturbelegung konnte nicht …
I do not have the time now to investigate in this / hope that anybody does have an idea what to do

inxi -Farz                                                                                                                                                                                   ✔  3s  
System:
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Zauberer-Merlin · 3 July 2025 15:04

Same on the second notebook…
keyboard layout is switching to US english at GNOME logout, but at least on this machine it is saved within the session.

What is the reason and what do to to resolve this?
Thanks for any help!

nitja · 3 July 2025 15:29

I’ve had this and similar issues in the past. The really bad thing with this one was that it affected the login screen as well and it’s not possible to enter my pass code without an accessible AltGr-key - for what I found a work around.
I struggled for few days in vain to find an overall solution until the next update solved it automatically.

dmt · 3 July 2025 18:55

Last time I saw this kind of thing it was caused by fcitx5, so uninstalling that package fixed the issue.

pacman -Qs fcitx

However that was some time ago and I suspect it’s something else (not sure what).

Firefox translate gives me “Bug. Keyboard layout could not”, which isn’t very helpful.

Please post the entire error message, preferably in English (or perhaps even better, both languages).

The login screen and the session are not the same thing, there may be another setting for the login screen.

Zauberer-Merlin · 4 July 2025 04:30

fcitx is not installed.

This is really strange (for me).
There is not all the time an error message in “manjaro-settings-manager” when I try to switch the keyboard layout. It depends on the selected layout.

But: the manjaro-settings-manager just is not doing what it should - even if I am switching to “German” - in the terminal [alt gr] still is not working, so I try a reboot, and after this the keyboard layout is English(US) again…

This is as of the update yesterday - never had this before

Zauberer-Merlin · 4 July 2025 04:50

the key that is not working is alt-gr.
and within manjaro-settings-manager a wrong keyboard layout is selected after every logout / login of after a reboot.
if i change to German keyboard layout in manjaro-settings-manager this layout is not working everywhere (e.g. not in terminal), but in Brave it is working

cd /etc                                                          ✔ 
    /etc  locale                                                        ✔ 
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
    /etc  cat vconsole*                                                 ✔ 
# Written by systemd-localed(8) or systemd-firstboot(1), read by systemd-localed
# and systemd-vconsole-setup(8). Use localectl(1) to update this file.
XKBLAYOUT=de
XKBMODEL=pc105
KEYMAP=de
    /etc  localectl                                                     ✔ 
System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: de
   X11 Layout: de
    X11 Model: pc105

This are the locale settings after a reboot - for me this looks correct, but still alt--gr is not working ...

Zauberer-Merlin · 4 July 2025 05:02

solved … what the hell …
it is an Gnome Extention that seems to be not compatible with Gnome 48.3…
Disabling “Logo-Menu” followed by a logout / login and everything seems to work as it should …

I could have tried this on my own before writing this thread …

Sorry for everybody reading this and trying to help for something that was so easy to resolve …

system · 7 July 2025 05:03

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