I made a cool, little script that will edit my /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc file automatically. It is useful when I want to switch between a Mac or Windows keyboard.
The one problem I've encountered is that I have to log out and then log back in after editing the file in order for the edited configuration to take effect.
I've tried deleting my xkb cache (/var/lib/xkb/*.xkm), but that did work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
Solution. Run this command. Of course, you could change "us" to your desired keyboard layout.
setxkbmap -layout us
It's answered in Unix Stack Exchange:
Basically, you do this:
sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
It is also mentioned that the following might be sufficient, please comment on what system setup it alone helped:
# For Ubuntu < 16.04
service keyboard-setup restart
# For Ubuntu >= 16.04
systemctl restart keyboard-setup
You might come across other answers suggesting you delete /var/lib/xkb/*.xkm. That would be an outdated suggestion. At least in Ubuntu, this directory wasn't used for this purpose for quite a few years.
Run follwing command to reload XKB:
sudo setxkbmap
don't set -layout option. just execute above command.
