Bug 955489 – No way to change keyboard layout in xfce4 wayland / labwc session

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Alexander Weber 2025-05-06 06:07:34 UTC]

I use XFCE on X-less wayland system, with labwc as window manager.

Without USE=X the xfce-base/xfce4-settings does not provide xfce4-keyboard-settings tool.

Previously I was able to set the layout in ~/.config/labwc/environment config file.

Since one of the last updates, the file is not used anymore. Now the file ~/.config/xfce4/labwc/environment is used. It is possible to set the value temporary and reload the config using labwc -r, but after reboot the file is back to previous state.

In session output I see the next lines:

awk: Fatal: Die Datei »/etc/vconsole.conf« kann nicht zum Lesen geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-595] No components returned from XKB rules "/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev"
xkbcommon: ERROR: [XKB-822] Couldn't look up rules 'evdev', model 'pc105', layout '', variant '', options '(null)'
00:00:00.227 [ERROR] [../labwc-0.8.4/src/input/keyboard.c:783] failed to create xkb keymap for layout ''
00:00:00.227 [ERROR] [../labwc-0.8.4/src/input/keyboard.c:786] entering fallback mode with layout 'us'

The file /etc/vconsole.conf does not exists. Google say, it is Systemd file. I use OpenRC. It seems the labwc configuration is generated now, based on systemd settings :-(


# emerge --info
Portage 3.0.67 (python 3.13.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop, gcc-14, glibc-2.40-r8, 6.12.25-gentoo-dist x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-6.12.25-gentoo-dist-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-5250U_CPU_@_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.40
KiB Mem:     8016056 total,   6795268 free
KiB Swap:    8388604 total,   8388604 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 06 May 2025 03:45:00 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 85ef7af8f3134a8d9cad7498965abec94a5833aa
Head commit of repository bell07: 7793aa8cabda14848c561cf4b95bd4661a34d891

Timestamp of repository guru: Mon, 05 May 2025 19:54:57 +0000
Head commit of repository guru: 54bfb4f723a04bf60838a3117a932ae9e8ba1041

Head commit of repository kodi-overlay: 58f94fdff2f03726198c697896cf99a70ff1adda

Timestamp of repository steam-overlay: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:38:10 +0000
Head commit of repository steam-overlay: 23f38449f9a86d0648566b51a51e73d9561a40e6

Timestamp of repository wayland-desktop: Fri, 02 May 2025 04:42:13 +0000
Head commit of repository wayland-desktop: b7de45a506e3525ebf9174e5548e3905f07d294f

sh bash 5.2_p37
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.44 p1) 2.44.0
distcc 3.4 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled]
app-misc/pax-utils:        1.3.8::gentoo
app-shells/bash:           5.2_p37::gentoo
dev-build/autoconf:        2.72-r1::gentoo
dev-build/automake:        1.17-r1::gentoo
dev-build/cmake:           3.31.5::gentoo
dev-build/libtool:         2.5.4::gentoo
dev-build/make:            4.4.1-r100::gentoo
dev-build/meson:           1.7.0::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:      2.3.4::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:             5.40.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:           3.12.10::gentoo, 3.13.3::gentoo
dev-lang/rust-bin:         1.85.1::gentoo
llvm-core/clang:           19.1.7::gentoo
llvm-core/llvm:            19.1.7::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:       2.17::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:           0.56::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:          2.39::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:        2.44::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5.2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:             14.2.1_p20241221::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:      2.12.1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers:  6.12::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:            2.40-r8::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/db/repos/gentoo
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    volatile: False
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3

bell07
    location: /var/db/repos/bell07
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/bell07/gentoo-bell07_overlay.git
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

guru
    location: /var/db/repos/guru
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/guru.git
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

kodi-overlay
    location: /var/db/repos/kodi-overlay
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/kodi-overlay/kodi-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

steam-overlay
    location: /var/db/repos/steam-overlay
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/steam-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

wayland-desktop
    location: /var/db/repos/wayland-desktop
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/wayland-desktop.git
    masters: gentoo
    volatile: False

Binary Repositories:

binhost
    priority: 9999
    sync-uri: https://ftp.uni-hannover.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/binpackages/23.0/x86-64-v3

Installed sets: @my-local
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=broadwell -mabm -maes --param=l1-cache-line-size=64 --param=l1-cache-size=32 --param=l2-cache-size=3072"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=broadwell -mabm -maes --param=l1-cache-line-size=64 --param=l1-cache-size=32 --param=l2-cache-size=3072"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --autounmask --autounmask-write n --autounmask-backtrack y --binpkg-respect-use=y --usepkg-exclude=sys-kernel/*-kernel --usepkg-exclude=sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_STATE_HOME"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=broadwell -mabm -maes --param=l1-cache-line-size=64 --param=l1-cache-size=32 --param=l2-cache-size=3072"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs binpkg-multi-instance binpkg-request-signature buildpkg-live config-protect-if-modified distcc distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles getbinpkg ipc-sandbox merge-sync merge-wait multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox pkgdir-index-trusted preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=broadwell -mabm -maes --param=l1-cache-line-size=64 --param=l1-cache-size=32 --param=l2-cache-size=3072"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_DE"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
LEX="flex"
MAKEOPTS="-j40 -l4"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
SHELL="/bin/bash"
USE="a52 aac aacs acl acpi alsa amd64 appindicator bdplus bluetooth bluray branding bzip2 cacert cairo cdda cddb cet cover crypt css dbus dist-kernel dri dts dvd dvdr egl elogind encode exif fat ffmpeg flac fluidsynth gamepad gdbm gdk-pixbuf gif gimp git gles2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk4 gui hddtemp heif hfs iconv icu ipv6 java joystick jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms libnotify libtirpc lm-sensors logrotate lto mad midi mms mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp multilib ncurses networkmanager nls ntfs oauth-gtk4 ocr ogg opencv openexr opengl openmp openrc opus pam pango pcre pdf pgo pipewire png policykit postscript ppds printsupport pulseaudio qml qt5 qt6 readline rtmp samba scanner sdl seccomp snmp sound spell sqlite ssl startup-notification svg sysv-utils test-rust theora threads thunar tiff truetype udev udf udisks unicode upower usb v4l vaapi vorbis vpx vulkan wayland webp widevine widgets wiimote wmf wxwidgets x264 x265 xattr xcb xfce xft xml xpmopenexr xv xvid xwayland zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="32 64" ADA_TARGET="gcc_14" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_anon authn_dbm authn_file authz_dbm authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax navcom oceanserver oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 tsip tripmate tnt ublox" GUILE_SINGLE_TARGET="3-0" GUILE_TARGETS="3-0" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en en-US de de-DE" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb text" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php8-2" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres17" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_13" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_13" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby32" SANE_BACKENDS="hp net" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tarpit sysrq proto logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  ADDR2LINE, AR, ARFLAGS, AS, ASFLAGS, CC, CCLD, CONFIG_SHELL, CPP, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, CXXFILT, ELFEDIT, EXTRA_ECONF, F77FLAGS, FC, GCOV, GPROF, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LD, LFLAGS, LIBTOOL, LINGUAS, MAKE, MAKEFLAGS, NM, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PYTHONPATH, RANLIB, READELF, RUSTFLAGS, SIZE, STRINGS, STRIP, YACC, YFLAGS

[Comment 1 Alexander Weber 2025-05-06 06:25:26 UTC]

Found the workaround.
Create the ~/.config/xfce4/labwc/lock file avoid the override the configuration. Now I am able to manage the settings again manually.

The code related code is in script /usr/bin/startxfce4 provided by xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.20.2