Cannot change keyboard to custom layout

[sygi]

I have a custom keyboard layout stored in /usr/NX/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sygi (on the server) and in the /usr/share/X11... on both local and server, which both are Linux machines. When using either of these machines, I can change the keyboard layout via setxkbmap sygi.

When connecting with NoMachine (8.5.3) (with ssh authentication), I am able to change layout to the standard ones (eg. setxkbmap fr), but when running setxkbmap sygi, I get: Error loading new keyboard.

Any idea how to debug the issue?

 

[Britgirl]

Are you connecting to the physical display and are you running ‘setxkbmap sygi’ in a terminal running on the server?

[sygi]

In the meantime, I figured it out, but I couldn’t comment here as the post wasn’t authorized. The issue in my case was that the NX keymap file wasn’t set to be globally readable for some reason. It’s a bit annoying that xkb doesn’t show any logs related to what went wrong when it tried to set the keymap.

[Britgirl]

Ah now I understand. You submitted a topic with the same problem a while back

Using NoMachine with a custom keyboard layout

and in that reply Fra81 replied that “NoMachine doesn’t load the keymaps from the system path (/usr/share/X11/xkb), but it ships its own keyboard config files in /usr/NX/share/X11/xkb. “

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