[BUG] cannot change layout in rofi wayland

[Tahvok]

Rofi version (rofi -v)

1.7.3+wayland1

Configuration

https://gist.github.com/Tahvok/8d571e4a33ddc736c25b97fa7a3f5d81

Launch command

rofi -show run

Step to reproduce

I'm using sway, so I setup my layout configuration as follows:

input * {
    xkb_layout "us,us"
    xkb_variant ",colemak"
    xkb_options "grp:shift_toggle,caps:backspace"
}

All apps work fine, I can change the layout.

However, sway work only using qwerty - no matter if I launch rofi before changing the layout, or trying to change the layout when rofi is running.

Expected behavior

rofi supports different keyboard layouts

Actual behavior

Rofi always types in qwerty

Additional information

No response

[LeGrosFaisan]

Hi,

I'm facing a similar issue. I'm using two different layouts, and I noticed that changing the layout before or while using rofi is not reflected when typing something.

I also noticed that rofi is using the first layout set in _xkblayout

I'm on ArchLinux and I'm using Hyprland, and I've tried updating libxkbcommon; however, it did not resolve the issue.

Rofi version (rofi -v)

1.7.5+wayland1-38-gfd0ef6bc

[lbonn]

Yes, I can confirm this is quite annoying.

Looking into it...

[jasyip]

Yes, I can confirm this is quite annoying.

Looking into it...

Hi, what's the status of this?

[rj1]

i'm not sure if this is related, but using this fork of rofi is the only thing that doesn't respect the keyrate set in my sway config

e.g.

input "type:keyboard" {
    xkb_layout us
    repeat_delay 250
    repeat_rate 60
    xkb_options caps:escape
}

the rate in rofi is obviously much slower than anything else

edit: created separate issue @ https://github.com/lbonn/rofi/issues/81

[lbonn]

@rj1 I think this is probably another issue. Could you open a new one about this problem?