XFCE - The keyboard layout changes automatically

[Kulle]

I used Rava's script.
After "Suspend" the time is also adjusted,
from January 27th to January 30th

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guest@porteus:~$ date
Fr 27. Jan 18:02:54 CET 2023
guest@porteus:~$ date
Mo 30. Jan 14:03:49 CET 2023

[Rava]

I used Rava's script.
After "Suspend" the time is also adjusted,
from January 27th to January 30th

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guest@porteus:~$ date
Fr 27. Jan 18:02:54 CET 2023
guest@porteus:~$ date
Mo 30. Jan 14:03:49 CET 2023

Can you please post the script how you used it?

My script has no part that tweaks anything of the system date/time.

And when you go into suspend using your DE way, that also only calls

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loginctl suspend

to go into suspend.

To debug a script, I always insert "echo INFO" lines, e.g. echo with the info what part of the script that echo is from.

In the phase of debugging I recommend using a better readable code, in this case, the one with if else fi and not the one with && and ||
I would also add info into there like so:

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echo debug - A ## DEBUG
date ## DEBUG
echo setxkbmap de
setxkbmap de
returnval=$?
echo debug - B ## DEBUG
echo '$returnval'=$returnval ## DEBUG
if [ $returnval -eq 0 ]; then
	notify-send -i info -t 5000 "Keyboard set" "to DE"
else
	notify-send -i error -t 0 "Keyboard setting to" "DE failed"
fi
echo debug - C ## DEBUG
date ## DEBUG

Set the number of the echo debug - X accordingly, and only use unique numbers so that one echo debug output will only be printed by one specific place in the script - and never by any other place in the script.

[Ed_P]

To debug a script, I always insert "echo INFO" lines, e.g. echo with the info what part of the script that echo is from.

I add a "set -x;" command near the top to help debug scripts I have problems with.

[Rava]

I add a "set -x;" command near the top to help debug scripts I have problems with.

What he said.

[Kulle]

Hi Rava,
1. Test
"suspend" by clicking on the Suspend button

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guest@porteus:~$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     de
options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
guest@porteus:~$ date
Sa 28. Jan 16:33:03 CET 2023

After suspend:

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guest@porteus:~$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us
options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
guest@porteus:~$ date
Di 31. Jan 12:35:34 CET 2023

2. Test
"suspend" via the console command loginctl suspend

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guest@porteus:~$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     de
options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
guest@porteus:~$ date
Sa 28. Jan 16:38:01 CET 2023
guest@porteus:~$ loginctl suspend
guest@porteus:~$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us
options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
guest@porteus:~$ date
Di 31. Jan 12:38:45 CET 2023

3. Test
"suspend" via Rava's Script ==> the same thing.

Kbmap and time are always changed !

[Rava]

Hi Rava,
1. Test
"suspend" by clicking on the Suspend button
[…]
2. Test
"suspend" via the console command loginctl suspend
[…]
3. Test
"suspend" via Rava's Script ==> the same thing.

Kbmap and time are always "suspend" via Rava's Script ==> the same thing.
changed !

As I suspected, since all 3 variants did the same erroneous change of date/time, it has nothing to do with my script nor with calling loginctl suspend via a terminal.

My suggestion:
Post what gets written into /var/log/messages.

You can facilitate that by creating a script now owned and executed by root that does these things:

suspend-debug.sh (must be run as root!)

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#!/bin/sh
MYNAME=$0
function seconds2time () 
{
    local T=$1;
    local D=$((T/60/60/24));
    local H=$((T/60/60%24));
    local M=$((T/60%60));
    local S=$((T%60));
    if [[ ${D} != 0 ]]; then
        if [[ ${D} = 1 ]]; then
            printf '%d day %02d:%02d:%02d' $D $H $M $S;
        else
            printf '%d days %02d:%02d:%02d' $D $H $M $S;
        fi;
    else
        printf '%02d:%02d:%02d' $H $M $S;
    fi
}
function mydate () {
	echo $(date +%d.%m.%Y\ %H:%M:%S) ____________________________________________________________
}
# we use the function mydate to more easily find the date/time info in /var/log/messages

declare -i startepoch=$(date +%s)
echo "●●●●● before $MYNAME ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●" >>/var/log/messages
mydate  >>/var/log/messages
echo loginctl suspend >>/var/log/messages
loginctl suspend >>/var/log/messages
echo '●● sleeping 10 seconds for loginctl suspend to background-suspend. ●●' |tee -a /var/log/messages
# now suspend should happen
sleep 10s
echo '●●●●● loginctl suspend took '$(seconds2time $(date +%s)-$startepoch)' … ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●'|tee -a /var/log/messages
echo "●●●●● after $MYNAME ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●" >>/var/log/messages
mydate  >>/var/log/messages

Run suspend-debug.sh as root.

Post here what is printed in the terminal that ran suspend-debug.sh

Also post here all the info from /var/log/messages - starting with

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●●●●● before $MYNAME ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

and ending with

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●●●●● after $MYNAME ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

and the following date/time info as created by the mydate function.
$MYNAME gets replaced by the name you gave the script.

Unless the date/time change as recorded in /var/log/messages happens later than the

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●●●●● after $MYNAME ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

line and the date/time info as created by the mydate function - then post all beginning from

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●●●●● before $MYNAME ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

to the end of /var/log/messages

Hopefully then we do know more.


Why must the script be executed by root?

Because only root has read/write permission into /var/log/messages
HTH!

[Ed_P]

3. Test
"suspend" via Rava's Script ==> the same thing.

The "setxkbmap de" at the end of Rava's script didn't work??

Added in 7 minutes 8 seconds:

Why must the script be executed by root?

Because only root has read/write permission into /var/log/messages

You can't prefix the script's writes with "echo toor | sudo -S" ? If so guest can run the script.

[Rava]

The "setxkbmap de" at the end of Rava's script didn't work??

It's not about that, currently it is about the strange change of system time/date in his system when
● suspend is done via the menu in XFCE
● manually via loginctl suspend
● or via my script (that also uses loginctl suspend).

You can't prefix the script's writes with "echo toor | sudo -S" ? If so guest can run the script.

Only when the user did not change the root's password to a more secure one. Like is recommended.

[beny]

hi

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guest@porteus:~$ setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /etc/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     it,us
variant:    ,
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+it+us:2+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+it+us:2+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

[Rava]

This is my setxkbmap -print -verbose 10 using probably the same setup as Kulle:

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Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /etc/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     de
variant:    nodeadkeys
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwertz)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

as you can see, in contrast to beny's output mine only shows one layout:

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layout:     de
variant:    nodeadkeys

[Kulle]

Another new test:
Rava wrote
"You can also set that via its settings menu Settings ▷ Keyboard ..."
I did that.

Result after "suspend" : keyboard map is preserved, time/date is also preserved
This solves the problem

Rava wrote "Post what gets written into /var/log/messages"
I'll do that soon, as soon as I have time

[Kulle]

I wrote hastily.
Also now was after a longer "suspend" date/time changed:

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guest@porteus:~$ date
Mi 1. Feb 09:31:45 CET 2023

(keyboard map has been retained)
It may be, so this effect occurs sometimes
or after a longer "suspend".
I will keep watching

[Rava]

"You can also set that via its settings menu Settings ▷ Keyboard ..."
I did that.

Result after "suspend" : keyboard map is preserved, time/date is also preserved
This solves the problem

Yay! And when I recall correctly it was my first suggestion to boot.

Good to know it helped.

It may be, so this effect occurs sometimes
or after a longer "suspend".
I will keep watching

I am 99% sure that the date/time offset is unrelated to the setting of the keymap.

[Rapha_]

in porteus-v5.0-x86_64.cfg file I have: kmap=de lang=de

I dont see any lang= in Porteus cheatcodes.txt

[Rava]

I dont see any lang= in Porteus cheatcodes.txt

There are also more generic cheat codes that apply to most Linux kernels, not just the Porteus one. Many of those are not listed in cheatcodes.txt
I presume lang= is one of the generic cheat codes.