Description
I have my laptop connected though a thunderbolt dock to an external keyboard. My internal laptop is a finnish layout kb and the external one is a en-us layout kb. Sometimes it appears that sway gets confused and behaves as if the external keyboard was set to fi-fi layout. Hitting any key on my laptop keyboard will then "remind" sway that the external kb is in en-us layout. Also, it would appear that this bug only happens for xwayland apps.
swaymsg -t get_inputs
(snipped out irrelevant stuff):
{
"identifier": "1241:17733:USB_Keyboard_System_Control",
"name": "USB Keyboard System Control",
"vendor": 1241,
"product": 17733,
"type": "keyboard",
"xkb_layout_names": [
"English (US)"
],
"xkb_active_layout_index": 0,
"xkb_active_layout_name": "English (US)",
"libinput": {
"send_events": "enabled"
}
},
{
"identifier": "1241:17733:USB_Keyboard_Consumer_Control",
"name": "USB Keyboard Consumer Control",
"vendor": 1241,
"product": 17733,
"type": "keyboard",
"xkb_layout_names": [
"English (US)"
],
"xkb_active_layout_index": 0,
"xkb_active_layout_name": "English (US)",
"libinput": {
"send_events": "enabled"
}
},
{
"identifier": "1241:17733:USB_Keyboard",
"name": "USB Keyboard",
"vendor": 1241,
"product": 17733,
"type": "keyboard",
"xkb_layout_names": [
"English (US)"
],
"xkb_active_layout_index": 0,
"xkb_active_layout_name": "English (US)",
"libinput": {
"send_events": "enabled"
}
},
{
"identifier": "6127:12394:Lenovo_ThinkPad_Thunderbolt_3_Dock_USB_Audio",
"name": "Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock USB Audio",
"vendor": 6127,
"product": 12394,
"type": "keyboard",
"xkb_layout_names": [
"English (US)"
],
"xkb_active_layout_index": 0,
"xkb_active_layout_name": "English (US)",
"libinput": {
"send_events": "enabled"
}
},
{
"identifier": "6058:20564:ThinkPad_Extra_Buttons",
"name": "ThinkPad Extra Buttons",
"vendor": 6058,
"product": 20564,
"type": "keyboard",
"xkb_layout_names": [
"English (US)"
],
"xkb_active_layout_index": 0,
"xkb_active_layout_name": "English (US)",
"libinput": {
"send_events": "enabled"
}
},
{
"identifier": "1:1:AT_Translated_Set_2_keyboard",
"name": "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard",
"vendor": 1,
"product": 1,
"type": "keyboard",
"xkb_layout_names": [
"Finnish"
],
"xkb_active_layout_index": 0,
"xkb_active_layout_name": "Finnish",
"libinput": {
"send_events": "enabled"
}
}
]
relevant snip from config file
input "1:1:AT_Translated_Set_2_keyboard" {
xkb_layout fi
xkb_options ctrl:nocaps
}
input "1241:17733:USB_Keyboard" {
xkb_layout us
xkb_options ctrl:nocaps
}
input "2385:5815:Kingston_HyperX_Alloy_FPS_Mechanical_Gaming_Keyboard" {
xkb_layout fi
xkb_options ctrl:nocaps
}
version info:
sway version 1.2-rc1-19-gff7d979d (Aug 20 2019, branch 'master')
wlroots=e19f48d1e4cea6bbb8998466553fffda4bd13251
not sure if it's relevant but libinput is at
dpkg -l | rg libinput
ii libinput-bin 1.12.6-1 amd64 input device management and event handling library - udev quirks
ii libinput-dev:amd64 1.12.6-1 amd64 input device management and event handling library - development files
ii libinput10:amd64 1.12.6-1 amd64 input device management and event handling library - shared library
ii xserver-xorg-input-libinput 0.28.2-2 amd64 X.Org X server -- libinput input driver
Apologies, I don't have logs for this at the moment. I'll try to dig them out later.
Incidentally is seems a little odd that Lenovo_ThinkPad_Thunderbolt_3_Dock_USB_Audio
is detected as a keyboard and as such has a layout. Perhaps that's not related but I included it in case it somehow is.
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