On Saturday, 16 September 2017 13:27:18 BST Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 13. September 2017, 19:07:20 CEST schrieb Mick: > > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the > > keyboard, nor the spell checking respects the locale, L10N, or anything > > else I have set up. systemsettings5 shows en-GB as the selected language > > and keyboard, but (I think) a US keyboard layout and spell checking > > language is used instead. > > I have a slightly different problem with recent Plasma versions, but I > wonder if they're related: > > Changing the spell checking language doesn't do anything, it sticks to > whatever was selected to begin with, even though it *looks* like I changed > the selection. For example, if German is the initial selection, after > changing to any English variant English-only words are still highlighted as > incorrect. > > I did just test changing the keyboard, though, and that still works (via the > default Ctrl-Alt-k keybinding).
Ahh! This is interesting. It only showed US keyboard being available. So I looked into systemsettings5 and I discovered only US keyboard was listed. So, I added the UK keyboard and this seems to have fixed the keyboard problem. Thanks for the hint. > > Is this another systemd-R-us imposition, or is there a way I can set it up > > so that Plasma & friends respect the default environment settings? > > I don't understand why you would think that to be the case, systemd also > just uses (and controls, if you use localectl) the usual variables in /etc/ > locale.conf. > > > $ env | grep LANG > > LANG=en_GB.UTF8 > > For completeness, I've got: > > % env | grep LANG > LANG=de_DE.utf8 > LANGUAGE=de:en_GB > > HTH Where is the LANGUAGE variable expected/required? I have not found it in the documentation. -- Regards, Mick
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