Force one keyboard layout about swaylock HOT 14 CLOSED

This seems unnecessarily tbh.

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Still would be a nice addition anyway, instead of switching multiple layouts to enter a password.

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I'd rather add a command to switch the current keyboard layout in sway. You could then run it right before locking.

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Would be really nice, but there seems another issue with checking a keyboard layout (setxkbmap -query) on the wlroots side.

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setxkbmap won't work. This would need to be a sway command.

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It all references to setxkbmap support, as far as I see the situation, so then we just can set setxkbmap on both before-sleep and after-resume to have a special layout on unlock.

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setxkbmap won't work

(setxkbmap is a X11 tool, it doesn't work on Wayland)

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Is an setxkbmap implementation planned? Seems an important tool.

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setxkbmap is a X11 tool, it doesn't work on Wayland

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setxkbmap is a X11 tool, it doesn't work on Wayland

So how to change/lookup a keyboard layout from the terminal?

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I'd rather add a command to switch the current keyboard layout in sway.

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Note that you can already completely change the layout with swaymsg input '*' xkb_layout 'layout1,layout2' like in the config. This new command would be to switch between layout1 and layout2.

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swaymsg input '*' xkb_layout 'ru' doesn't change a layout at all.

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@ghost You can configure the keyboard layouts as follows in the Sway configuration:

input * xkb_layout  us,ru
input * xkb_variant us

To change the layout prior to swaylock, run this command:

swaymsg input '*' xkb_switch_layout 0

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