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SDDM keyboard layout refuses to switch (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Working inside a VirtualBox virtual machine. Installed Arch Linux using the Archinstall method. Chose KDE as the DE and SDDM as the greeting screen.

Managed to log in once, but after adding a language and rebooting, I didn't seem to be able to change the keyboard layout, making entering the correct password impossible. I have tried looking up how to switch the keyboard layout, but am coming up with nothing. What is the key combination to change the keyboard layout in SDDM?

Setting up a different virtual machine now.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad you solved!

Also, in case you wouldn’t mind helping me with this other thing that is outside the scope of the initial complaint: where do I find the KDE cube options? It doesn’t seem to be in the Window management options, nor do I see a downloadable version of the such. The KDE plasma version is 6.0.5.

Well, I may take a look, but I'm not a KDE user at all. I'm on Gnome for over 5 years already.

Try Settings > Window Management > Desktop Effects > "Windows Management" section > Overview and configure it.

However looks like to make it work, you should have at least 3 virtual desktops.

I suggest you to open a new thread with this question, cause I really don't know enough about KDE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Try Settings > Window Management > Desktop Effects > "Windows Management" section > Overview and configure it

The problem is that there is no such option there, which is why I'm asking.

It seems that I need to install kdeplasma-addons. I will need to look into how people usually use pacman, as it keeps asking me to login as root.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To use pacman you must have root permissions. You can do this by using sudo.

If your installation is correct, you must just use sudo pacman -S kdeplasma-addons

sudo is a command that escalates your user's privileges to have root power

pacman -S installs a package

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering what I was doing wrong with sudo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And did u find out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I was trying to do stuff like sudo install. I was not aware that it is used in combination with other commands like that.