Problem There are some known limitations with switched keyboard layout handling in GNOME and KDE live installs. This affects scripts like Cyrillic, where it is standard to use one keyboard layout (usually US English) to type Latin characters and another, ‘native’ layout to type native characters. G…

Switched keyboard layout limitations in GNOME and KDE live installs

kparal (Kamil Páral) April 24, 2026, 11:13am 5

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