Steam OS change keyboard layout

[floele]

Hello,
I have installed SteamOS on my computer and everything works fine by now except the keyboard layout.

I installed SteamOS with expert installation, change the overall system language to english but using german keyboard layout.

So after rebooting I found out that I wasn't able to login using my connected keyboard as it was US layout. I found the keyboard settings in Steam Big Picture mode but this seems only affect the overlay keyboard. So I switched to the Gnome desktop and there I have the german keyboard layout but when I switch back to Big Picture Mode I have only the US keyboard which makes it complicated to enter passwords and navigate.

I did search the internet but didn't find a solution for this. What could I try?

Thank you

[wolfmodder]

Ciao floele, had a similar problem.. in desktop mode, in the "language.. etc" window/card there's a button up right regarding lockscreen: just make sure to set same preferences also in this "second card", eventually remove english layouts (not necessary) and reboot. For me it worked, hope it helps

[Teddy]

So changing the keyboard layout in the client changes the on screen keyboard, but not the usb connected ones. Interesting. For SteamOS, it would make sense that the client changes the usb keyboards as well. On other Linux distros, that's probably not desirable.

I opened an issue on Github to see if Valve would consider this.

[floele]

Thank you for your replies.
@wolfmobo: I did what you said but it doesn't work. Removed the english keyboard for input settings but it's still the same.

However I found out what causes the problem. It's a known bug and its affecting a lot of linux distributions but was also fixed by them. It seems that this bug is still in steamos.

I had the same problem in opensuse or centos, cant remember exactly.

The problem has to do when using a usb keyboard. When I first had this bug I was booting my linux and I had my harddisk encrypted with special characters and I wasn't able to login. Until I found out that it was also using the us layout. So no chance to get in the system. Until I found out that it was working with an old PS2 keyboard.
So guess what. This is also working now with steamos:)
The bug was in nearly every distribution I had it in centos and also opensuse. So i think also debian was affected.

So its working now but only when using an ps2 keyboard not with usb keyboards.

@Teddy: where did you opened the bug? So I can add there some information. And I will search for the old topic regarding this problem. Maybe this can help the developers.

greetings

edit

these are the topics I created some time ago.

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/510632-Can-t-use-keyboard-to-type-in-LVM-crypt-password

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=953035

[Teddy]

Over here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5188
Looks like they will consider it

[floele]

Hello. I would like to update this topic here. The problem I mentioned above was gone some time ago. But now I have the same problem again.
I have the feeling that something is wrong with the localization in SteamOS. I'm using english as main language but german keyboard. When using a USB keyboard I always have the american layout where y and z are switched. After connecting an keyboard with PS2 plug it works also when using the USB keyboard in addition to the other one. The first text input has to be on the PS2 keyboard.

But now I found out that I also have problems inside some games. For example I started Half Life 2 and when I want to change the key bindings I also have only the US keyboard.

Something is really messy with the localization. Seems not to work properly. How can I make it work again? THX