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Bithov Vinu
Bithov Vinu

Reputation: 105

Keyboard layout is correct within tty of Alpine Linux, but not with XOrg and DWM

I installed Alpine Linux on my daily driver laptop with dwm, dmenu, st and XOrg as instructed here. Initially, I set my keyboard mapping as "gb gb" in the 'alpine-setup' command, and this worked fine (all the keys were in the right place) while still in the tty. When I installed Xorg and the suckless tools this did not hold true; the keymapping was set to the default US keyboard layout. When I exit X and return to the tty the layout is fine, which shows the problem is on the side of Xorg or DWM. I've tried adding the following to my .xinitrc, to no improvement:

setxkbmap -layout gb

How would I change the keymapping of Xorg and suckless tools to the UK keyboard layout?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3761

Answers (1)

eloyesp
eloyesp

Reputation: 3285

You need to install setxkbmap as it is not installed by default, and you should run this command from the terminal first to test it does work as intended before you add it to the `.xinitrc file.

Instructions are on the wiki.

# apk add setxkbmap

Then try

$ setxkbmap gb

In order to make it persistent add this section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier  "Keyboard Default"
    MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Another way to change the keymap when logging into X is to use ~/.xinitrc, adding:

setxkbmap gb &

Upvotes: 1

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