Keyboard layout reverts back to "us" after display power cycling

[vincele]

I have the following in ~/.icewm/preferences:

KeyboardLayouts = "fr"

If I power my display off, and then on again, the keyboard layout goes back to "us", I have to use

setxkbmap -layout fr

To get it back to french...

Am I missing something ?

icewm 3.3.0 on void linux x86_64-musl (radeon rx 550)

[gijsbers]

You want to let icewm enforce a single keyboard layout. That would be a new feature. This change allows you to click on the flag to restore your french layout.

[vincele]

Yes I want a single keyboard layout, but this issue also happen when you have multiple layouts configured.

I retried with:

KeyboardLayouts = "fr","us"

Shutting down the screen changes the keyboard layout back to "us".

Why does it change ? I did not unplug the keyboard, I only shut the screen off. If you absolutely have to change, why choose "us", when my configuration file lists "fr" first ?

I also tried with:

KeyboardLayouts = "fr","de"

And upon screen shutdown it also changes to "us", even if it is not in the list of requested layouts.

But anyways, I'll try your patch

[gijsbers]

If your system changes the keyboard when you shut the screen, then you need to change the configuration of the system. IceWM is a window manager which concerns itself with placing windows on the screen and directing input focus.

[vincele]

Ah sorry, I was thinking that it is icewm which changes the keyboard layout. Closing the issue then.