Unable to set UK keyboard layout on RPI400

[capcom]

Hi everyone, I’m having a hard time with “Manjaro Settings Manager” in setting my “Keyboard Settings”. I know this should be a trivial thing, but my “RaspberryPi 400” with UK keyboard keeps acting as US no matter what I do:

localectl status
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
VC Keymap: uk
X11 Layout: gb
X11 Model: pc104

(not relevant) After the last update to my i3 version bricked my installation I had to move to sway, but for some reason localectl shows "X11 layout and model.

I’ve tried other models like pc86 and pc98 (the RPI400 UK layout has 79 keys). I even tried different variants but nothings seems to work.

I had a similar bug when I was using i3 with X11, where my layout would be changed to US after every reboot, but changing the settings in Manjaro Settings Manager would fix have an effect, unlike my current situation.

I got the aarch64 sway edition and have everything up to date:
sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases…
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade…
there is nothing to do

Please let me know what other info I should share in order to help the troubleshooting.

[Mirdarthos]

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[capcom]

Whenever I try to write “#” I get a "".
Whenever I try to write “~” I get a “|”.
Whenever I try to write “the pound symbol” I get a “#”.
Whenever I try to write “|” I get a “>”.

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @capcom, and welcome!

Have you checked here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#Setting_the_locale

[capcom]

Hello @Mirdarthos , thanks for the welcome and for the link. I ran a few commands and checked a few files:

locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

grep en_GB /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir
iso8859-1/XLC_LOCALE                    en_GB.ISO8859-1
iso8859-15/XLC_LOCALE                   en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE                  en_GB.UTF-8
iso8859-1/XLC_LOCALE:                   en_GB.ISO8859-1
iso8859-15/XLC_LOCALE:                  en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE:                 en_GB.UTF-8

grep en_GB /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir
iso8859-1/Compose               en_GB.ISO8859-1
iso8859-15/Compose              en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_US.UTF-8/Compose             en_GB.UTF-8
iso8859-1/Compose:              en_GB.ISO8859-1
iso8859-15/Compose:             en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_US.UTF-8/Compose:            en_GB.UTF-8

[Mirdarthos]

See here:

[root tip] [How To] Troubleshooting locale errors

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ Locale Errors Locale errors are not always obvious and some applications simply stop working without any hints at all - e.g. Gnome Terminal is very sensitive to incorrect configuration of locale. TL:DR As root edit the file /etc/locale.gen Enable the needed locales - including en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 as fallback. Rebuild the locale database using the locale-gen script Calamares installer The Calamares installer adds the locales chosen to the end of /etc/locale.gen so check the …

Also see:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration#Setting_keyboard_layout

I only have and use a desktop, so I do not have a clue whether it would be the same on the ARM devices. (The RPI is an ARM device, so yeah…)

Edit:

You can set more in /etc/default/keyboard, AFAIK. Mine, for example:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="za"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

Value of XKBLAYOUT is the layout of keyboard. Change it to another possible value and reboot the machine to take effects.

[capcom]

I’m beginning to thinks this has something to do with “Manjaro Settings Manager”. There is a little testing area there where you can type things. Although I have English (UK) “Default” set and applied, the “#” key still prints "".

[Mirdarthos]

I don’t know. I’ve never used Manjaro settings manager. Simply because I like the CLI.

[capcom]

Thanks again @Mirdarthos for the reply. I found out something curious. The console is ok, so the problem is only on wayland.

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

$ grep -v "^#" /etc/locale.gen
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8


$ cat /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=uk
XKBLAYOUT=gb
XKBMODEL=pc105

I’ve tried to use " localectl set-keymap uk" but the issue on wayland persists

[Mirdarthos]

@capcom

on wayland

Well, I’ve seen multiple problems with Wayland…so I’m not sure what to do except point you here:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/689657/trying-to-set-keyboard-layout-to-us-intl-on-wayland/707792#707792

It may or may not do something, good or bad, I don’t know…

Edit:

Also see:

Change keyboard layout on Wayland

Hi, I don’t understand how to change my keyboard layout on Wayland. I use the QWERTY Lafayette layout, it’s a qwerty adapted for french people. On the official site qwerty-lafayette . org there is the procedure for xorg, it works well. But it does not work on Wayland. I then tried via the graphical tool of Manjaro, it finds well the installed keyboard but nothing happens when I apply it, it does not work. I did a fresh install of Manjaro Sway yesterday, but I want to use Qtile (So avoid a sing…

And:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/tby98j/change_keyboard_layout_in_wayland/

And:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1437227/custom-layout-and-variant-keyboard-in-wayland/1438326#1438326

[linux-aarhus]

use localectl to set the layout

sudo localectl set-keymap uk

This will write the corresponding files correctly. For changes you will have to restart your system - perhaps logging out is enough.

I just did with my pbp with us layout and # moved from shift3 to the other side of the keyboard labelled |.

@capcom

After the last update to my i3

But you are using Wayland - then it is sway - right? Then you would have to look at sway configuration - no?

[capcom]

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/etc/sway/inputs/default-keyboard had ‘xkb_layout “us”’. Changing to “gb” fixed the issue.