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This has modern #linux problem been annoying me for so long...
Under a Wayland session in #Ubuntu 24.04 my keyboard is en-US but under X11 its en-GB (which is correct)
I have searched, even asked Gemini and done everything (including XKB, XBB, gsettings etc ) but can not find a solution to set my Wayland session en-GB as default or even change it once logged in.
Its deeply annoying, any help or pointers would be great
@cubicgarden good luck. I remember the settings-on-disk<>udev<>X11 chain seems to be broken by design. Maybe wayland inherits the same mechanism.
@cubicgarden not sue this helps, but at least in KDE this is handled by ibus. check if you don't have sucha a daemon associated to your session. Not sure what fronteds you have im GTK land...
@cubicgarden Obviously you set the keyboard layout, there is no "correct" setting - you mean it isn't picking up a previous setting.
@cubicgarden
What desktop environment are you using with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ?
GNOME would be the default
Language/Region (locale) is here:
(1)
And Keyboard settings (input sources) are here:
(2)
@cubicgarden This probably related to X11 controlling the key map itself, and it being set up there (maybe even in Xorg.conf/localectl), while under Wayland that's controlled by the compositor (which does not read Xorg.conf). In theory, the Ubuntu System Settings should simply offer you a way to change the layout, you may need to select something like "show more layouts"?
@ljrk Exactly what I have found, but its so strange few other people are having the same problem. Its so annoying having to find the forward slash and euro sign.
@cubicgarden But your desktop environment's settings don't offer a way to change the keyboard layout? There should really be no issue, just open, e.g., Ubuntu System Settings and change the layout. No need to fiddle around with Wayland etc
@ljrk @cubicgarden This is the main conceit, yes.
However, most Wayland compositors I have used use the defaults from xkbd, which are generally set with localectl (for systems systems, one of which Ubuntu should be).
`localectl set-x11-keymap uk` (yes, it says x11, but it is a more general config, despite that)
@cubicgarden Well, it definitely *should* be possible....
@cubicgarden gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'gb')]"
@cubicgarden you wouldn't have recommendation for app launcher "cmd + space" (like Mac) if you're on Ubuntu 24 with Wayland? I'm struggling to find one that doesn't require me to tinker too much...
@leanderlindahl I don't sorry, I just use the usual Gnome shell one
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