Subject: bug#48549: Can't change keyboard layout in Xfce

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:21:56 -0400

Hello,

宋文武 <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In a VM image such as the one we offer for download here:
>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.3.0.x86_64-linux.qcow2
>> or manually built with
>>
>> $ guix system image --image-size=20G -t qcow2 gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl
>>
>> it is not possible to switch the keyboard layout (it sticks to the
>> default English US one) via the provided GUI (xfce4-keyboard-settings).
>
>
> Hello, i find that select the layout won't make it active, but you have
> to move it to the top row.  Closing now, as it does works..

And is this is how it is intended to behave (the same on other GNU/Linux
distributions, say?).

Thanks for trying it out!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim