Changing the keyboard to German layout (AV Linux 23.2 "Enlightened")

[black_currant]

When I click on the icon after adding German and moving it up, still the only option I get is US american. When I go back to settings I see the German keyboard still priorised.

That said, I am starting to wonder whether something is generally wrong with that panel. The little wifi applet acts similarly: I select a network, I put in the password, and it closes and acts as if nothing happened. No visible attempt to connect, no error message.

[fehlix]

When I click on the icon after adding German and moving it up, still the only option I get is US american. When I go back to settings I see the German keyboard still priorised.

Can't remember last time how I fixed it either just adding or keeping only German layout, next try to see if it is in the click list or not, or I logged out and logged in again.
But I remember I could always change it to German keyboard. So you are close, I guess.

[AVLinux]

If someone would have found how to adjust with a simple config file, I guess the issue would not have been on the iso.

Unfortunately the solution would need to be coded into Enlightenment/EFL itself. It is designed to be installed from package manager and on first run it runs a setup wizard with basic system settings including keyboard. When you create a 'ready to use' ISO of Enlightenment this wizard doesn't run so keyboard has to be set manually.. I agree this one issue would be much easier on almost every other possible DE but E doesn't use the usual XML type of configuration files..

[black_currant]

Hm. So this would be the first Linux distribution I am using where elementar settings are hidden away. What happened to the Unix philosophy? The system must use some form of file to store configuration values, and that file I can access. So even if the user experience is planned the way you describe (configure once, override system settings forever), there must be a place where this can be changed, even if it is undocumented. So for changing the keyboard I have to properly reverse engineer the DE.

[AVLinux]

Hm. So this would be the first Linux distribution I am using where elementar settings are hidden away. What happened to the Unix philosophy? The system must use some form of file to store configuration values, and that file I can access. So even if the user experience is planned the way you describe (configure once, override system settings forever), there must be a place where this can be changed, even if it is undocumented. So for changing the keyboard I have to properly reverse engineer the DE.

You are misunderstanding what I've said which is likely my fault..

There are many non-English Users and changing the keyboard setting as described from the Panel applet is what they have done and it works. The keyboard is not 'hardcoded' to not be changed, it is supposed to be changed to the Users needs. What I am talking about is a setup wizard that doesn't run in AV Linux to allow keyboard setting at first run before using the system, once you are first logged in it CAN be changed. I don't know why this isn't working for you without more information.

[aika]

menu => settings => system-keyboard

or in terminal:

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system-keyboard-qt-launcher

Add German there. Then save and reboot.
After the german flag should be visible at the bottom of the bar.


Take a look at my attached picture

[AVLinux]

menu => settings => system-keyboard

or in terminal:

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system-keyboard-qt-launcher

Add German there. Then save and reboot.
After the german flag should be visible at the bottom of the bar.


Take a look at my attached picture

Unfortunately this is different with Enlightenment DE than with regular DE's and that will set the system keyboard as expected but not set the keyboard that the Desktop Environment is using in this case.

[aika]

...
- I tried

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dpkg-reconfigure locales

, as well as

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dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-setup

but to no effect ...

The command: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales" worked?

Then, regarding available LOCALE, I would enter:

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sudo update-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

Then reorganize the assignment of the directories/files:

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sudo locale-gen --purge --no-archive

And finally check whether:

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sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

runs cleanly.



To compare, enter in the terminal:

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mx-locale

and take a look at my new attached picture:


German MX works best with UTF-8:

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aika@mx-dell:~
$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
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=
aika@mx-dell:~
$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de,us,ru"
XKBVARIANT=",,typewriter"
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll,grp:rctrl_rshift_toggle"

BACKSPACE="guess"
aika@mx-dell:~
$ sudo locale-gen --purge --no-archive
[sudo] Passwort für aika: 
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
  de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
  de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
  de_DE.UTF-8... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-15... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  ru_RU.ISO-8859-5... done
  ru_RU.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
aika@mx-dell:~
$