[SOLVED] Multiple keyboard layouts on LXDE

segmentation_fault · 09-19-2012, 08:21 AM

I am trying to setup a debian system on which we need 2 keyboard layouts American English(us) and Greek(gr). On the Gnome DE I have set it up all fine. But my prefered DE is LXDE, so I looked up on how to set it up. I found on arch wiki that I need to add a #-keyboard.conf so here it is

Code:

$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf 
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier         "evdev keyboard catchall""AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
    MatchIsKeyboard    "yes""on"
    Option    "XkbLayout" "us,gr"
    Option    "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

Here is my 10-evdev.conf keyboard section:

Code:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

This configuration doesn't work. I get only the default us layout. After every change I made I run

Code:

# /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart

I even tried a full system reboot. However if I run on a terminal

Code:

setxkbmap -layout "us,gr" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

I get the results I want.

Any ideas what is wrong? Did I miss something in the configs? Any missing info ask and I will post ASAP.

Update:
I moved those files to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and checked /etc/default/keyboard. Still, no luck. In VT I have the layout switching, but not on lxde.

segmentation_fault · 09-19-2012, 11:33 AM

Turns out that this bug is responsible. I stoped gdm3 and started lxde with startx and everything works fine. Thanks to babilen and a couple other guys whom nicks I lost from #debian on Freenode for helping figuring this out.