i3 is not involved in handling keys, only keyboard shortcuts.

Are you saying that keybindings (such as Mod+2 to switch to workspace 2)
you configured in the i3 config file are not working? Or are you referring
to text input to applications, such as entering your name in a web form in
Firefox?

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 3:09 PM Vlastimil Zima <vlastimil.z...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Package: i3-wm
> Version: 4.17.1-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm trying to setup a i3, but I encountered a problem with keyboard
> layout setup. Multiple layouts set up in /etc/default/keyboard are
> ignored by i3 and only 'us' layout is available. On the other hand,
> keyboard options are respected.
>
> I have in /etc/default/keyboard
>
>     XKBLAYOUT="us,cz"
>     XKBVARIANT=",qwerty"
>     BACKSPACE="guess"
>     XKBMODEL="pc105"
>     XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,caps:none"
>
> but after i3 is started, 'setxkbmap -query' returns
>
>     rules:      evdev
>     model:      pc105
>     layout:     us
>     options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,caps:none
>
> I'd expect the layouts from the keyborad setup would be used as well. I
> wasn't able to find another location which would override the keyboard
> layout.
>
> Regards,
> Vlastimil Zíma
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages i3-wm depends on:
> ii  libc6                     2.29-2
> ii  libcairo2                 1.16.0-4
> ii  libev4                    1:4.27-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.62.2-1
> ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.42.4-7
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.42.4-7
> ii  libpcre3                  2:8.39-12+b1
> ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-6
> ii  libxcb-cursor0            0.1.1-4
> ii  libxcb-icccm4             0.4.1-1.1
> ii  libxcb-keysyms1           0.4.0-1+b2
> ii  libxcb-randr0             1.13.1-2
> ii  libxcb-shape0             1.13.1-2
> ii  libxcb-util0              0.3.8-3+b2
> ii  libxcb-xinerama0          1.13.1-2
> ii  libxcb-xkb1               1.13.1-2
> ii  libxcb-xrm0               1.0-3
> ii  libxcb1                   1.13.1-2
> ii  libxkbcommon-x11-0        0.8.4-1
> ii  libxkbcommon0             0.8.4-1
> ii  libyajl2                  2.1.0-3
> ii  perl                      5.30.0-9
>
> Versions of packages i3-wm recommends:
> ii  fonts-dejavu-core                     2.37-1
> ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.34.2-1
> ii  libanyevent-i3-perl                   0.17-1
> ii  libjson-xs-perl                       4.020-1+b1
> ii  xfonts-base                           1:1.0.5
> ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           349-1
>
> i3-wm suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>


-- 
Best regards,
Michael

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