How can I get a custom X11 keyboard layout to show up in the Keyboad Layout - Add keyboard list

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I’m trying to get my custom keyboard layout to show up in this list:

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I’ve added the (for now very basic) custom keyboard in:

/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml

But so far, no luck :frowning:

How can I get a custom keyboard to show up?

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Additional info: I’m running CachyOS with KDE Plasma (Wayland).

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What you added/edited is only for xorg and as you stated running Wayland. Try switch to Xorg.

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Keyboards configured this way should work in Wayland too.

I set up my custom layboard slightly differently, using my $HOME. The files I needed were:

~/.xkb/rules/evdev
~/.xkb/rules/evdev.xml
~/.xkb/symbols/[my custom symbols file]

So I’m guessing a bit, but maybe you need to modify evdev as well as evdev.lst ?

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I got it to work. I edited the correct files, but apparently the name I used for my custom keyboard caused an issue somewhere. I changed the name and it now works as expected.

Thanks for the help!

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