Sway: Ignores home.keyboard

[DamienCassou]

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Issue description

The sway module doesn't configure the keyboard the way it is set in home.keyboard.

Home Manager allows for a high-level keyboard configuration, e.g.,

{
  home.keyboard = {
    layout = "us";
    variant = "colemak";
    options = ["ctrl:nocaps"];
  };
}

Such a configuration has no impact on Sway. I would expect setting home.keyboard would make Sway configured with this keyboard.

Workaround: Sway's handling of keyboard can be configured with something like:

{
  input = {
    "*" = {
      xkb_layout = "us";
      xkb_variant = "colemak";
      xkb_options = "ctrl:nocaps";
    };
  };
}

Would it make sense to generate the above Sway configuration from home.keyboard?

Maintainer CC

@alexarice @sumnerevans @SebTM @oxalica

System information

- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.18-200.fc37.x86_64, Fedora Linux, 37 (Workstation Edition), nobuild`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.11.1`
 - channels(root): `"nixpkgs"`
 - channels(temp): `"home-manager, nixpxkgs"`
 - channels(cassou): `"home-manager-22.11.tar.gz, nixpkgs"`
 - nixpkgs: `/home/cassou/Documents/projects/nix-system/nixpkgs`

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[DamienCassou]

This is still a problem but if maintainers are not willing to give feedback I'm fine closing the issue.

[sumnerevans]

If there is a clear translation, then sure, we can generate that from home.keyboard. I do worry about the options part as it seems like it's a string in the sway config. How do you translate the list to that?

Also, instead of * it should be type:keyboard so that things such as YubiKeys don't get caught in whatever layout you are using.

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[SebTM]

How do you translate the list to that?

It seems like you can just comma separate it // https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/571885/how-to-toggle-keyboard-layout-in-sway-from-the-shell

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[ambroisie]

Not stale.

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[sliedes]

Still relevant.