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

[Twilight0]

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

3. 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

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

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

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

[napcok]

Hi @Twilight0, and welcome to the forum

Can you try this?

Gxkb - X11 keyboard indicator and switcher

(gxkb is preinstalled in Mabox since Istredd release) gxkb is a tiny indicator applet which allows to quickly switch between different keyboard layouts in X. A flag corresponding to the country of the active layout is shown in the indicator area. Github repo: GitHub - zen-tools/gxkb: X11 keyboard indicator and switcher [Mabox_20220914-13-42-44] Installation yay gxkb Configuration Example config file ~/.config/gxkb/gxkb.cfg [xkb config] group_policy=2 default_group=0 never_modify_c…

[Twilight0]

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.

[ioannis]

how is possible to set Greek layout , thank you for your help …(i am NEW user …!!!) how … Copy desktop file to needed location: "cp /usr/share/applications/gxkb.desktop ~/.config/autostart/ " ???

[napcok]

Hello @ioannis and welcome to the forum

You just need to edit the configuration file:

geany ~/.config/gxkb/gxkb.cfg

and replace some language code with gr.

Then restart session.

See:

Gxkb - X11 keyboard indicator and switcher

(gxkb is preinstalled in Mabox since Istredd release) gxkb is a tiny indicator applet which allows to quickly switch between different keyboard layouts in X. A flag corresponding to the country of the active layout is shown in the indicator area. Github repo: GitHub - zen-tools/gxkb: X11 keyboard indicator and switcher [Mabox_20220914-13-42-44] Installation yay gxkb Configuration Example config file ~/.config/gxkb/gxkb.cfg [xkb config] group_policy=2 default_group=0 never_modify_c…

[ioannis]

works…thank you !!!

[napcok]

If you don’t need layout indicator running in system tray all the time (gxkb)…
Just add a line to ~/.config/openbox/autostart

setxkbmap -layout "us,gr" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" &

And switch between defined layouts by Alt + Shift