Reform-config sets only TZ

MNT Pocket Reform
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Calling from a terminal

sudo reform-config

only allows the TZ to be set, although the documentation states its also allows to set the keyboard.

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Thank you for your issue report!

By ā€œdocumentationā€ you probably mean the part in /etc/reform-help that says:

Set keyboard layout and timezone:

Or did you find the reform-config tool mentioned elsewhere?

@minute I do not see it mentioned in the handbook and now there is the reform-setup-wizard ā€“ maybe it is time to remove the reform-config script from reform-tools? It was only running these three lines:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
sudo systemctl restart console-setup
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
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Ohh,
Thanks - I mixed up the ā€˜reform-configā€™ tool with the setup wizard - Sorry for the confusion
:blush:

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In which situation did you want to run the reform setup wizard manually?

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to redo the keyboard config

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Ok here is where I got the info from: if you do ā€˜reform-helpā€™ then it tells you to use ā€˜sudo reform-configā€™ to config keyboard and TZ - but that only does TZ.

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Re-running reform-setup-wizard will do much more than change your keyboard config.

@minute maybe the wizard should warn the user loudly if it is being executed a second time manually?

If you want to change your keyboard layout, run this command to change it for everything before sway/wayfire:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

This is the same as you would do for any other Debian based system. For sway or wayland you would edit your ~/.config/sway/conf.d/input or your ~/.config/wayfire.ini, respectively. You ure probably most interested in the xkb_layout setting.

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Yeah, it would be good to enhance the wizard so that it did useful things to an existing user account, and especially detect if it was already run before.

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