I encrypted my hard drives with luks. Now when I start my computer, it asks for the password. That’s fine so far. If I’m seeing correctly, the keyboard layout is noted below the input field. Unfortunately, the field is somehow cut off and I can only see ma*. I assume that’s supposed to mean “mac”. I…

The program responsible for that screen is plymouth. It has a config file here: /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf The default theme for Cachy is called cachyos-bootanimation and is provided by the cachyos-plymouth-bootanimation package. Source: GitHub - CachyOS/plymouth-theme: New Bootanimation for Cac…

Looks like it’s “emacs”. The different keymaps can be found in /usr/share/plymouth/themes/cachyos-bootanimation/keymap-render.png Why it automatically set yours to this, I haven’t a clue. I suppose it’s possible that whatever is determining what part of the png to render is just wrong, and it is t…

Alternatively, you could try a different Plymouth theme. Might have better luck with the keymap that way. /usr/share/plymouth/themes ❯ ls drwxr-xr-x - root 7 Jan 16:40  bgrt drwxr-xr-x - root 7 Jan 16:38  cachyos-bootanimation drwxr-xr-x - root 7 Jan 16:40  details drwxr-xr-x - root 7 Jan 16…

Switching to bgrt, solved the issue for me. (plymouth-set-default-theme -R bgrt). Many thx. SO this seems to be a issue with the theme itself. Unfortunatly i cant open an issue on GitHub. Issues seems to be disabled there.

Thank you so much, this has bothered me for weeks.

If you want to keep using CachyOS theme boot animation for Plymouth i had explained how to do that in following thread with similar issue: [image] Cachyos-bootanimation: Wrong keyboard layout shown at LUKS password prompt Bugreports Replacing keymap-render.png…

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Enalix February 20, 2026, 3:06pm 7

If you want to keep using CachyOS theme boot animation for Plymouth i had explained how to do that in following thread with similar issue: