On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:22:56AM +0100, Timo Paulssen wrote: > Greetings, > > I use the de-neo keyboard layout all day every day. It differs quite > strongly from the regular de layout (think of it like dvorak or > colemak). It has reached the point where I'm having a hard time typing > regular de. This is why this problem is getting on my nerves. > > Here's the symptoms: > > Whenever I plug in an input device - wacom touchpad, steam controller, > usb mouse, ... - or switch from a console back to X, i get the regular > de keyboard layout back, and i have to type "setxkbmap de neo" in some > terminal. > > I set the de-neo via localectl, which among other things wrote the > following content to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf: > > # Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit > this file > # manually too freely. > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "system-keyboard" > MatchIsKeyboard "on" > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > Option "XkbVariant" "neo" > EndSection > > I can tell that this configuration gets picked up by the X server, > because whenever i plug in a keyboard-like device, i see this in my xorg > log: > > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (**) Option "xkb_model" "neo" > (**) Option "xkb_layout" "de" > > I have no clue how to continue hunting down this problem. It doesn't > help that I run the same distro (fedora workstation 23) on my desktop, > where everything works just fine with - as far as i can tell - the same > config. The laptop is a Thinkpad T440s, if that's interesting.
what DE are you using? any chance it's overwriting your setting? Cheers, Peter > I hope this list is the right place to ask about this. If not, please > feel free to send me somewhere else. Looking forward to your insights, > dear subscribers. > - Timo Paulssen _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
