Hello,
I’ve installed Leap 16 on two machines, each with a french Azerty keyboard. On one computer, no problem, the keyboard is azerty at boot.
On the second one, at boot (before the Kde session) the keyboard layout is Qwerty. The problem is that I have an encrypted disk with a password and I’d prefer to have an azerty layout when entering the passphrase.
In the two cases, the installation was made with a french keyboard.
I’ve read something about keyboard layout in grub (https://askubuntu.com/questions/751259/how-to-change-grub-command-line-grub-shell-keyboard-layout) but there is no gkb file in boot and I’m not at all sure about this. The problem arrives after grub and during init phase (systemd ?).
Thanks in advance.
It is absolutely unclear what do you mean. Post photo if you cannot give better explanation.
I had the very same issue when I tried Leap16 as a RC. Since you got it working on one of your machines, I suggest you compare /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf.d. that can give you a hint.
I think I found a solution (I didn’t have any clue when posting and I had read several web pages). I give the solution in case it could be useful to someone.
I have a luks encrypted disk and the system ask for the password at boot (I have an /etc/crypttab file) and Plymouth is active (splash=silent in grub configuration).
But, when asking for the password, the keyboard layout was Qwerty and not Azerty (so typing a gives q). In fact, Plymouth was indicating a US keyboard. Booting in text mode didn’t change anything and I couldn’t change it because touchpad or mouse isn’t active during boot.
After reading several web pages, I’ve modified /etc/vconsole.conf (KEYMAP=fr) and reinstall kernel with Myrlin (it is necessary to reinstall kernel, it didn’t work without doing it).
Thanks
No, it is not. But you need to rebuild initrd to include updated /etc/vconsole.conf and this happens as side effect of installing kernel.
There is nothing new, it has always been this way.
Just to confirm and to know for the future, I should have done ‘dracut -f’ instead of reinstalling kernel (I’m no specialist in kernel configuration) ?
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