Package: plasma-desktop Version: 4:5.21.5-2 Followup-For: Bug #993030 now I had time to experiment with this issue: it seems that the "variant" part is not being setup correctly (it seems to be ignored). for example, I tried setting up Russian keyboard layout with "phonetic" variant -- the variant setting has no effect at all.
A workaround is to use the commandline, where the format is "layout(variant)": setxkbmap "lt(us)" Then the keyboard indicator shows unconfigured "lt(us)" -- confusing, but it works and I do not have to touch it again. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:da Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages plasma-desktop depends on: ii accountsservice 0.6.55-3 ii breeze 4:5.21.5-2 ii kactivitymanagerd 5.21.5-2 ii kde-cli-tools 4:5.21.5-2 ii kded5 5.83.0-2 ii kio 5.83.0-2 ii kpackagetool5 5.83.0-2 ii libaccounts-qt5-1 1.16-2 ii libc6 2.31-13 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.18-4 ii libglib2.0-0 2.68.4-1 ii libibus-1.0-5 1.5.24-1 ii libkaccounts2 4:21.08.0-1 ii libkf5activities5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5activitiesstats1 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5authcore5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5baloo5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5codecs5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5completion5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5configcore5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5configgui5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.83.0-3 ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5crash5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5declarative5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5globalaccel-bin 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5globalaccel5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5guiaddons5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5i18n5 5.83.0-3 ii libkf5iconthemes5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5itemviews5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5jobwidgets5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5kcmutils5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5kdelibs4support5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5kiocore5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5kiofilewidgets5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5kiogui5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5newstuff5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5notifications5 5.83.0-3 ii libkf5notifyconfig5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5package5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5plasma5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5plasmaquick5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5quickaddons5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5runner5 5.78.0-3 ii libkf5service-bin 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5service5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5solid5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5sonnetcore5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5sonnetui5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5wallet-bin 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5wallet5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5windowsystem5 5.83.0-2 ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.83.0-2 ii libkworkspace5-5 4:5.21.5-3 ii libnotificationmanager1 4:5.21.5-3 ii libpackagekitqt5-1 1.0.2-1 ii libphonon4qt5-4 4:4.11.1-4 ii libprocesscore9 4:5.21.5-3 ii libqt5concurrent5 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libqt5core5a 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libqt5dbus5 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libqt5gui5 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libqt5network5 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libqt5qml5 5.15.2+dfsg-8 ii libqt5quick5 5.15.2+dfsg-8 ii libqt5quickwidgets5 5.15.2+dfsg-8 ii libqt5sql5 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libqt5x11extras5 5.15.2-2 ii libqt5xml5 5.15.2+dfsg-10 ii libscim8v5 1.4.18-2.2+b1 ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6 ii libtaskmanager6abi1 4:5.21.5-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.2-1 ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.4.0-1+b2 ii libxcb-record0 1.14-3 ii libxcb-xkb1 1.14-3 ii libxcb1 1.14-3 ii libxcursor1 1:1.2.0-2 ii libxi6 2:1.7.10-1 ii libxkbcommon0 1.0.3-2 ii libxkbfile1 1:1.1.0-1 ii oxygen-sounds 4:5.21.5-2 ii phonon4qt5 4:4.11.1-4 ii plasma-desktop-data 4:5.21.5-2 ii plasma-framework 5.83.0-2 ii plasma-integration 5.21.5-2 ii plasma-workspace 4:5.21.5-3 ii polkit-kde-agent-1 4:5.21.5-2 ii qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop 5.83.0-2 ii qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons 5.83.0-2 ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols 5.83.0-2 ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons 5.83.0-2 ii qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem 5.83.0-2 ii qml-module-org-kde-qqc2desktopstyle 5.83.0-2 ii qml-module-org-kde-solid 5.83.0-2 ii qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel 5.15.2+dfsg-8 ii qml-module-qt-labs-settings 5.15.2+dfsg-8 Versions of packages plasma-desktop recommends: ii bluedevil 4:5.21.5-2 ii breeze-gtk-theme 5.21.5-2 ii fonts-hack 3.003-3 ii fonts-noto 20201225-1 ii ibus-data 1.5.24-1 ii kde-config-gtk-style 4:5.21.5-2 ii kde-config-screenlocker 5.21.5-2 ii kde-config-sddm 4:5.21.5-2 ii kde-style-oxygen-qt5 4:5.21.5-2 ii kgamma5 5.21.5-2 ii khelpcenter 4:21.08.0-1 ii khotkeys 4:5.21.5-2 ii kinfocenter 4:5.21.5-2 ii kio-extras 4:21.08.0-1 ii kmenuedit 4:5.21.5-2 ii kscreen 4:5.21.5-2 ii ksshaskpass 4:5.21.5-2 ii ksysguard 4:5.21.5-2 ii kwin-x11 [kwin] 4:5.21.5-2 ii kwrited 4:5.21.5-2 ii libpam-kwallet5 5.21.5-2 pn plasma-discover <none> ii plasma-disks 5.21.5-2 ii plasma-pa 4:5.21.5-2 ii powerdevil 4:5.21.5-2 ii systemsettings 4:5.21.5-2 plasma-desktop suggests no packages. -- no debconf information