cant change the keyboard layout

[ROMSY-SAN]

Hey Luke,
so after making a fresh install of Arch i decided to try your larbs, which is kinda looking good :)

Problem is, i cant change my keyboard layout.
i tried to edit ~/.scripts/remap
line 5 changed us to de
no changes
commented line 5 and uncommented line 9
no changes
tried in terminal loadkeys de-latin1
got the message:
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
same command as sudo: no message but still no change.

before i forget: after every change i logged out and logged in again.

[LukeSmithxyz]

Keep line 5 commented, then change line 9 to setxkbmap -layout de -option caps:super. See what happens on the next login. Remove the xmodmap command in the script if it doesn't work.

[ROMSY-SAN]

good morning, so after fidgeting around with the configs the only solution to change the keyboard was to edit the ~/.config/i3/config directly and add exec setxkbmap de in there.

i dunno why everything else failed (even your suggestion didnt worked) but i think its an i3 thing itself.

[LukeSmithxyz]

Are you sure you didn't delete the exec --no-startup-id ~/.scripts/remaps line in the i3 config then?

I just tried it myself and I get the German mapping just by editing the remaps file.

[Vollblut]

ive got it to work correctly like youve stated Luke. But the terminal shows no Umlauts (ÄÖÜ) and sharp s (ß).
they show up in the TTY and GUI applications. do I have to reconfigure st?

Edit: got it! Created an /etc/local.conf, exported the correct LANG, LC_DATE and TIME and set the keymap with localectl. Now it works!
Coincidentalky, Bumblee-Status date and time works too now, since no DATE TIME was set.

[LukeSmithxyz]

@Vollblut Have you changed/installed new fonts? It sounds like your mono font is lacking those characters. What does fc-match mono show?

[Vollblut]

no i haven't yet.Inconsolata-Regular.ttf: "Inconsolata" "Regular"

everywhere i get ö, ä, ü and so on just fine, only in st i just get a rectangle with an "?" in it.

Edit: Got it to work, accidentally edited the post above. D'uh.

[LukeSmithxyz]

Okay, good.

[Gfast2]

@Vollblut ,

Thanks! But perhaps its a typo: /etc/local.conf => /etc/locale.conf I believe.

# For the Problem here discussed
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
# For a english language enviroments
LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en