How can I change the xkb map/keyboard layout / etc. in plasma5 + kwin + wayland?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 07:10:04 +0300
Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:39:20 +0300
> Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > How can I change the xkb map/keyboard layout / etc. in plasma5 + kwin +
> > wayland? I was able to configure it in sway+wayland right away (see:
> > https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/blob/c90640879bb3f7aeddd4344125f88aa6b236a815/shlomif-settings/sway/sway/config#L228
> > ) and I spent several hours trying to do the same in plasma5 + wayland to no
> > avail.  
> 
> Replying to myself, I'd like to note that it seems I have been able to
> overcome the problem that bothered me from the other end:
> 
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27291#c11
> 
> Namely, I fixed the behaviour of KDE frameworks-based apps on X11 by
> unapplying a merge request that changed them ("27291 – [KDE Frameworks 5.74]
> New instance of QWidgets-based KDE apps (only on X11) starts in the last
> known position and size, overlapping the existing instance").
> 
> That put aside I still would like to learn how to change the keyboard layout
> on plasma5 + kwin + wayland, because wayland may be preferable in the future
> and because others may benefit from this knoweldge (and it appears to be hard
> to find).
> 

For the record, I've now reported it here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429045 ("Document how to change the
keyboard map / keymap / key layout on wayland / kwayland / plasma-wayland").

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