On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 08:41:41AM +0200, Stefan Wollny wrote: > Am 24.10.18 um 07:40 schrieb Matthieu Herrb: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 01:19:18PM +0200, Stefan Wollny wrote: > >> Am 22.10.18 um 10:45 schrieb Stefan Wollny: > >>> Am 10/22/18 um 9:57 AM schrieb Stefan Wollny: > >>> [ ... ] > >>>> > >>>> $ cat /etc/wsconsctl.conf | grep encoding > >>>> keyboard.encoding=de # use different keyboard encoding > >>>> > >>>> Yet this setting seems not to be recognized: > >>>> $ doas wsconsctl | grep encoding > >>>> keyboard.encoding=unknown_0 > > > > This probably means that you have some other wsconsctl commands that > > modify the layout after the initial switch to the 'de' layout. > > > > Hi Matthieu, > > thanks for caring. > > For the time being I found an intermediate solution: Instead using > Fluxbox as window manager I use LXQt and within changed all > localisations to 'Germany' which survived a reboot.
That's probably because LXQt saves the xkb settings in your session and restores them. > > What puzzled me is the fact that I did not (knowingly) changed any > settings which might explain this behaviour. The first line in the > '.xsession'-file used to be > export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > and with this I had German keyboard layout when entering the password > (luckily right now no special characters different to English layout). > At present (due to my experimental changes) I have > export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > and thus English is expected when entering username & password. The locale settings (LC_CTYPE / LANG) don't change the keyboard layout, unless you have something in your .profile, .xsession or similar files that change it. > Which other process / program might influence wscons? I don't know. But as long as on X startup you have keyboard.encoding=unknown_0 you will get the us layout by default. If you haven't added anything to /etc/rc.local or any package that installs a custom rc.d script fiddling with wsconsctl, I've no idea why your machines ends up with the unknown_0 layout (which means KB_USER internally). -- Matthieu Herrb
