Bug 2323642

Summary: germany keyboard layout selected, but english one used.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: customercare
Component: cinnamonAssignee: leigh scott <leigh123linux>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 41CC: epel-packagers-sig, leigh123linux, miketwebster, riehecky
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Description customercare 2024-11-04 11:07:09 UTC
If discovered earlier, this would have been a F41 blocker-bug.

Name        : cinnamon
Version     : 6.2.9
Release     : 1.fc41
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mo 04 Nov 2024 10:57:57 CET

As it looks the german langpacks have been installed and german is selected:

[root@fedora linuxamdienstag]# echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8
[root@fedora linuxamdienstag]# dnf list lang*
Updating and loading repositories:
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Repositories loaded.
Installed packages
langpacks-core-de.noarch     4.1-2.fc41    fedora
langpacks-core-en.noarch     4.1-2.fc41    fedora
langpacks-de.noarch          4.1-2.fc41    fedora
langpacks-en.noarch          4.1-2.fc41    fedora
langpacks-fonts-de.noarch    4.1-2.fc41    fedora
langpacks-fonts-en.noarch    4.1-2.fc41    fedora
langtable.noarch             0.0.68-2.fc41 fedora


But pressing "-" gives "/", the english key for that keyboard position.

There also does not seem to be a language select option anywhere on Cinnamon, at least i was unable to find a preftools to change or check the keyboard layout. The required TAB of "Keyboardlayout" has been removed from the "Keyboard" Prefs App.

Bug was discovered directly after upgrading from F40 > F41.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 leigh scott 2024-11-04 11:19:07 UTC
If your using wayland this is expected, layouts are working fine here with xorg session.

Comment 2 customercare 2024-11-04 11:28:03 UTC
So Wayland has only support for english?????? Can't believe that ;)

Your right, switching back to X11 Session and TAB and Keyboardlayout are back. 

If i may ask, if x11 shall be removed from Fedora, how shall non-english users use Cinnamon?

(wayland + gmd is also buggy as hell, reproduceable by logging out)

Comment 3 leigh scott 2024-11-04 12:16:19 UTC
cinnamon-wayland is experimental, note the session name when selecting it in the DM.

https://github.com/linuxmint/wayland/issues/14

Do you seriously think Xorg is going to be dropped anytime soon?, IMO it will still be present in distro's for at least another decade.

Comment 4 customercare 2025-11-03 09:56:27 UTC
fixed in upcoming release.

Comment 5 leigh scott 2025-11-03 10:40:43 UTC
(In reply to customercare from comment #4)
> fixed in upcoming release.

I have a copr for f43 testing

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/leigh123linux/cin_dev/