Change keyboard language

[aplaikner]

So I set up LARBS on my artix machine and after logging in the keyboard language switches to american, normally I have German. I have KEYMAP=de-latin1 in my /etc/vconsole.conf but it seams to be overridden after I login. The login prompt still uses the German layout, after that the american is used. I probably failed to change something in a config file...

[kocotian]

@V1leDev are you solved this problem? if yes, can you say how you solved? i have the same problem too :<

[aplaikner]

@V1leDev are you solved this problem? if yes, can you say how you solved? i have the same problem too :<

Yes, so I've tried a lot of things by changing some config files for locale etc. but nothing worked. Then in my case I put the
following command into .xprofile (at the very end):
setxkbmap -layout de
That worked. Now every time at login this command is executed and my keyboard layout is set to German.

[3m1l1a]

I had this problem myself when just started out with LARBS.
@LukeSmithxyz maybe these instructions would be good to have in the LARBS guide?

The reason is that Xorg overwrite the vconsole.conf variable.
Another method than @V1leDev is to create a 00-keyboard.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d with these settings.
Xorg reads the files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d in order with the lowest number first.

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

More information is in the Arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration