[arch-general] Keyboard Problem in Mate Arch Linux for the Last Few Days
Hello Friends in Arch-General Mailing List I am using Arch Linux for the last six months or so. Before that I was using Redhat and Fedora for 15 years or so. I am a Mate user and I use my keyboard to write both English and Bangla. For the last few days when I am booting into Mate, a problem window is coming up -- I have attached the file kbd-text-s.png. The output of the commands in kbd-text.png is here: << dd@ru-al ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", "grp:lctrl_rctrl_switch" [dd@ru-al ~]$ gsettings list-keys org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.kbd layouts options model
And usually I change the layout from one to the other (English and Bangla) whenever I need them -- from System--Preferences--Hardware--Keyboard, as shown in kbd-layout-s.png attached with this mail. But now the keyboard is always English, I cannot change it to Bangla India Probhat. I have never filed a bug in Arch Linux and so I am first reporting here. Any help is welcome. Thanking you. -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/
Dear Friends I wanted to report another thing in this connection. My machine has a dual boot with Debian, and the same Mate Desktop is there too. English-Bangla keyboard switching is working fine there. Image kbd-debian.png attached. Thanking you once again.
Dear Friends I wanted to report another thing in this connection. My machine has a dual boot with Debian, and the same Mate Desktop is there too. English-Bangla keyboard switching is working fine there. Image kbd-debian.png attached. Thanking you once again. -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/
Hello On 13-06-20 09:14:19 +0530, das via arch-general wrote:
I wanted to report another thing in this connection. My machine has a dual boot with Debian, and the same Mate Desktop is there too. English-Bangla keyboard switching is working fine there. Image kbd-debian.png attached. The list will scrub all attachments so you would have to put them somewhere. But regarding the switch, asking in the mate forums or IRC channel could help since the configuration does look okay. I have keyboard switching with plasma working with CAPS configured from the GUI. So you might just be missing something else which they could answer better.
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 2:03 PM Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
The list will scrub all attachments so you would have to put them somewhere. But regarding the switch, asking in the mate forums or IRC channel could help since the configuration does look okay. I have keyboard switching with plasma working with CAPS configured from the GUI. So you might just be missing something else which they could answer better.
Thank you for your reply, but I do not think the problem is with Mate. On Arch Linux I have three GUI desktops -- Xfce, Mate and Gnome but the Bangla keyboard or Keyboard switching is working on none of them. And, as you said, I will upload those three small PNG files somewhere and post the links here as soon as I can.
Hello Friends Here are the links for the images, as Dear Eachambadi suggested: For kbd-text-s.png: https://ibb.co/QJrx2Xb This shows the message that the system is showing. For kbd-layout-s.png: https://ibb.co/JKXjjmy This shows the Keyboard changing interface. For kbd-debian-s.png: https://ibb.co/mHtRMn4 Thanks in advance, dear friends -- I really the Bangla keyboard very much. -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/
On 06/13/2020 04:04 AM, das via arch-general wrote:
And, as you said, I will upload those three small PNG files somewhere and post the links here as soon as I can.
As a general note, http://paste.opensuse.org/ provides a quick pastebin type site for temporary uploads where you can limit the lifetime for 1-week, 1-month, etc... Image uploads and language syntax highlighting is provided for code/text. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:21 PM David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
As a general note, http://paste.opensuse.org/ provides a quick pastebin type site for temporary uploads where you can limit the lifetime for 1-week, 1-month, etc... Image uploads and language syntax highlighting is provided for code/text.
Thank you dear David Rankin for this helpful information. And I wanted to tell you, this bug was solved at least for me, now I am using xkeyboard-config-2.30-1 after an update and editing the '/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/in' file as suggested by Peter Hutterer here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues/21... With Regards -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:39 PM Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org> wrote:
It's a known bug:
Dear Friend Andreas Radke Thank you for the help. I went to the link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues/21... The report suggests that a downgrade to xkeyboard-config to 2.29-1 will solve the problem. But, please, sorry for this ignorance, I do not exactly know how to downgrade. Shall this simple command do: sudo powerpill -R <existing-xkeyboard-config> && powerpill -S xkeyboard-config-2.29-1 Thank, once again.
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:12:25 +0530, das via arch-general wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:39 PM Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org> wrote:
It's a known bug:
Dear Friend Andreas Radke
Thank you for the help. I went to the link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues/21...
The report suggests that a downgrade to xkeyboard-config to 2.29-1 will solve the problem. But, please, sorry for this ignorance, I do not exactly know how to downgrade. Shall this simple command do:
sudo powerpill -R <existing-xkeyboard-config> && powerpill -S xkeyboard-config-2.29-1
I don't know how powerpill works. I see there are at least aur/bauerbill, aur/pacman2aria2 and aur/powerpill that fit the search term powerpill, but nothing related by official repositories. There's an Arch Wiki available, that explains how to downgrade packages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/downgrading_packages There are also tools available by the AUR: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/downgrading_packages#Automation For example: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ downgrade xkeyboard-config Available packages: - 1) xkeyboard-config 2.26 1 any (remote) - 2) xkeyboard-config 2.26 2 any (remote) - 3) xkeyboard-config 2.27 1 any (remote) - 4) xkeyboard-config 2.28 1 any (remote) - 5) xkeyboard-config 2.29 1 any (remote) + 6) xkeyboard-config 2.30 1 any (remote) + 7) xkeyboard-config 2.30 1 any (local) select a package by number: Note, those helpers from AUR aren't official supported. Arch General is not the appropriate mailing list regarding unsupported helpers.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 6:07 PM Ralf Mardorf via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
There's an Arch Wiki available, that explains how to downgrade packages:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/downgrading_packages
There are also tools available by the AUR:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/downgrading_packages#Automation
Thank you dear Ralf Mardorf for your cooperation. The problem is solved. I got help from the Net Arch Wki -- how to downgrade -- and then did it with: sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xkeyboard-config-2.29-1-any.pkg.tar.zst -- this does everything downgrading xkeyboard-config from 2.30-1 to 2.29-1. -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/
participants (5)
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Andreas Radke
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das
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David C. Rankin
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Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi
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Ralf Mardorf