By some black magic pressing a key always results in whatever is engraved on the key caps to appear on the screen, on my machines of course. I frequently observed different behavior on different machines, predominantly in corporate environments: What you get is never what is shown on the key cap.
Henk, I must admit that, I’m using a Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard – with a German layout – I don’t remember if other layouts were ever on the market.
Your mileage may vary but, it usually pays to carefully select the manufacturer dependent “X11 Model” – the files containing the definitions are littered below ‘/usr/share/X11/xkb/’ but, I personally find the “xkeyboard-config” man (7) page to be much more comfortable.
I am a long time (open)SUSE user (from version 9.3 or something like that).
For all those years typing an é was never a problem.
Since I went to Tumble weed however, I had this issue, that every time after a restart, I could not type an é anymore.
I lost count on how many times, I managed to fix it through the settings, but then after a restart same problem again.
I am now happy though, I am already getting used to the Alt Gr key en then press e, for an é to appear.
Which still works after I restart my pc.
guus@localhost:~> localectl
System Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
VC Keymap: us-intl
X11 Layout: us
X11 Model: microsoftpro
X11 Variant: intl
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
No dead keys is something I could try. That could be what was causing my confusion. (Different way to get an é on leap, although I doubt it has anything to do with Leap vs Tumbleweed)
While typing this I suddenly remember something about the cli language. I remember setting it to out put in English.
Yesterday I noticed, the cli to speak dutch again.
Noticed it when updating with zypper dup, I needed to type an j instead of an y. rotfl!
**erlangen:~ #** lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1462:7c56 Micro Star International MYSTIC LIGHT
**Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046a:0011 Cherry GmbH G83 (RS 6000) Keyboard **
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c542 Logitech, Inc. Wireless Receiver
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
**erlangen:~ #**
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c084 Logitech, Inc. G203 Gaming Mouse
**Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a2c:0e24 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd USB Keyboard**
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
The manufacturer is very terse. Anyway localectl has everything what is needed for fine grained adjustments. I always select all settings at installation time and never need to change them. For full control all three of these are needed:
**erlangen:~ #** localectl --help
localectl [OPTIONS...] COMMAND ...
**Query or change system locale and keyboard settings.**
Commands:
status Show current locale settings
** set-locale LOCALE... Set system locale **
list-locales Show known locales
** set-keymap MAP [MAP] Set console and X11 keyboard mappings **
list-keymaps Show known virtual console keyboard mappings
** set-x11-keymap LAYOUT [MODEL [VARIANT [OPTIONS]]] **
Set X11 and console keyboard mappings
list-x11-keymap-models Show known X11 keyboard mapping models
list-x11-keymap-layouts Show known X11 keyboard mapping layouts
list-x11-keymap-variants [LAYOUT]
Show known X11 keyboard mapping variants
list-x11-keymap-options Show known X11 keyboard mapping options
Options:
-h --help Show this help
--version Show package version
--no-pager Do not pipe output into a pager
--no-ask-password Do not prompt for password
-H --host=[USER@]HOST Operate on remote host
-M --machine=CONTAINER Operate on local container
--no-convert Don't convert keyboard mappings
See the localectl(1) man page for details.
**erlangen:~ #**
**erlangen:~ #** **localectl set-x11-keymap de pc105 nodeadkeys terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp**
**erlangen:~ #**
**erlangen:~ #** **cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf**
# Written by systemd-localed(8), read by systemd-localed and Xorg. It's
# probably wise not to edit this file manually. Use localectl(1) to
# instruct systemd-localed to update it.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
**erlangen:~ #**
** User configuration files**
karl@erlangen:~> **cat .profile**
# Sample .profile for SuSE Linux
# rewritten by Christian Steinruecken <cstein@suse.de>
#
# This file is read each time a login shell is started.
# All other interactive shells will only read .bashrc; this is particularly
# important for language settings, see below.
test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile || true
# Most applications support several languages for their output.
# To make use of this feature, simply uncomment one of the lines below or
# add your own one (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias for more codes)
# This overwrites the system default set in /etc/sysconfig/language
# in the variable RC_LANG.
#
#export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for German output
#export LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for French output
#export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 # uncomment this line for Spanish output
# Some people don't like fortune. If you uncomment the following lines,
# you will have a fortune each time you log in ;-)
#if -x /usr/bin/fortune ] ; then
# echo
# /usr/bin/fortune
# echo
#fi
export PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING=1
karl@erlangen:~>
