[SOLVED] I can't set the keyboard layouts of my choice

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Hi, I really loved Mabox and I am willing to turn it as my daily driver (currently Linux Mint 20 user)

I am trying to set my keyboard layouts as us & gr, however settings are not persistent across reboots and always goes to us, pl & es (us, polish and spanish)

So far I 've tried:

  1. Typing this command but its not persistent obviously either:
    setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout "us,gr" -option grp:alt_shift_toggle

  2. Edited manually the file 00-keyboard.conf in the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the following contents:

# Written by systemd-localed(8), read by systemd-localed and Xorg. It's
# probably wise not to edit this file manually. Use localectl(1) to
# instruct systemd-localed to update it.
    Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "system-keyboard"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us,gr"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option "XkbVariant" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

  1. Typed this command but the output is the exact same as above:
    sudo localectl --no-convert set-x11-keymap us,gr pc104 grp:alt_shift_toggle

  2. I used Manjaro Settings manager, but can’t set more than one keyboard layout

  3. Pasted the command in point #1 into .bashrc, no effect here

  4. Tried it to have it in openbox’s own config files, once again no effect

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Hi @Twilight0, and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

Can you try this?

3

Wow, thank you, that was it, I 've thought it was just an indicator and didn’t have it’s own configuration. I fixed it. I am going to mark the thread as solved.

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