Hi everyone!
The problem is just that: after a while the international layout doesn’t work anymore. What could be causing this behavior? I’m not sure myself, as it isn’t constant – it just happens.
To set the layout I run:
exec_always --no-startup-id setxkbmap us -variant intl
in i3 config file before anything else, and obviously I don’t run the command setxkbmap again; at first I ran exec, but in an attempt to fix this weird behavior I started using exec_always.
A fix to this bug is reloading i3, but although easy it’s annoying nonetheless
I use spectacular. Anyway, I ran some gnome apps but it worked just fine
EDIT: perhaps it’s not related but when I login the windows on the first workspace aren’t in the position I set them (they are moved of ~50 pixels toward the bottom). Again, to fix this I reload i3 and then it works just fine
i3 only sets the keymap. Its being reset probably because the keyboard is temporarily disconnected. Maybe some power save measure kicking in. One permanent way to fix it is to use localectl to define keymap.
localectl set-keymap --no-convert us
I am not sure how you define the intl variant explicitly.
setxkbmap sets the keyboard layout for the current X session only, but can be made persistent in xinitrc or xprofile. This overrides system-wide configuration.
But if you want to set this systemwide it would not need to run this per session, there is localectl for this to set permanent
