I started using colemak as my keyboard layout, which was a simple enough process, but every time I reboot my system everything is back to QWERTY. After a little bit of research I found a post from the old forum, which even Wayback Machine couldn’t save and not much help beyond it. So, how can I mak…

Okay, so in the end it was just Plasma settings being unnecessarily confusing. I wasn’t supposed to change the layout in the “keyboard settings” submenu. I had to go all the way down to hardware and “input devices” (the same way I’d do to change the caps behavior) than go to layouts and change there…

Plasma resetting keyboard layout after boot

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anon89812132 17 August 2020 16:26 2

You can add/change the line
Option "XkbVariant" ",colemak"
inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf

or use as startup
setxkbmap -layout colemak
Se more here

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