Use the EurKEY keyboard layout

Andy

1/10/24, 12:37 PM

I want to used the EurKEY custom keyboard layout on my freshly installed Ubuntu.

I followed their installation instruction and downloaded and installed the .deb package manually. However when I run setxkbmap eurkey nothing seems to change. (I test the layout by trying Alt+A to see if I get an Umlaut, but nothing happens).

It looks like there is a warning, but I wasn't able to find out anything about it:

$ setxkbmap eurkey -v
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
         Using command line, ignoring X server
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+eurkey+inet(evdev)
geometry:   pc(pc105)

Since I've never messed around with custom layouts and am just following installation instructions on the website I can't quite figure out how to find or fix the problem myself.

I've also tried going to the settings and changing the layout there, but unless it has a different name, I can't seem to find the layout in the list.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson

1/10/24, 4:26 PM

I had a look at that eurkey.deb file, and I don't like it. At installation it edits files belonging to the xkb-data package, and that's bad practice.

And the use of that .deb file is also unnecessary. This is what you should have done:

Install the gnome-tweaks package if it's not already installed.
```
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks
```
Open Tweaks, select Keyboard & Mouse, and enable "Show Extended Input Sources".
Log out and log in again.
Go to Settings -> Keyboard, click the + button, select English (United States), and then you can pick the EurKEY (US) keyboard layout.

To clean up from your attempt to follow that other instruction, I recommend that you run these commands:

sudo apt purge eurkey
sudo apt install --reinstall xkb-data

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Andy

1/11/24, 9:44 AM

That worked, thanks a lot.

Alex_M

7/3/24, 10:44 AM

I am on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I tried following your instructions (Keyborad layouts are under "Region & Language"), but I don't have EurKEY listed under "Input Sources" despite having extended input sources enabled in Gnome-Tweaks.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/3/24, 11:41 AM

@Alex_M: Did you log out?

Alex_M

7/25/24, 5:52 PM

@GunnarHjalmarsson I have it working now. It only works if I add German as first Input source, and EurKey as second. As soon as I remove German it stops working. Really weird behavior.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

7/25/24, 10:20 PM

@Alex_M: That's too complicated to discuss in comments only. Please submit a new question.

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