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AltGr key switch for diacritics

letkan opened this issue · comments

commented

Hi, I wasn't able to configure the AltGr key (or any other key) to enabe diacritics while I type as I do in Xorg with setxkbmap ro, what I'm getting now is a menu eventually. Is something like that even possible in labwc? If so I'd appreciate some help, thanks.

commented

Adding XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=ro in .config/labwc/environment may fix the issue.

EDIT:

what I'm getting now is a menu eventually

I wonder what causes this though. Are you using the default config where A-Space is bound to ShowMenu action?

commented

Adding XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=ro in .config/labwc/environment may fix the issue.

Right now I have XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us,ro in environment. The thing is, my real default keyboard is the English one but when I need to type some Romanian words that have diacritics I'm using the AltGr key for those, I don't want to change the entire layout to Romanian.

EDIT:

what I'm getting now is a menu eventually

I wonder what causes this though. Are you using the default config where A-Space is bound to ShowMenu action?

I'm using the default US keyboard, I changed nothing since I installed Arch.

commented

Ah, I got what you mean. Looks like you want to update keyboard layout from inside session, like sway's swaymsg input '*' xkb_layout ro does.

Unfortunately, labwc doesn't offer rich IPC mechanisms like swaymsg or hyprctl.

Alternatives are:

  • Use options like XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=grp:alt_shift_toggle
  • Replace XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us in ~/.config/labwc/environment with XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=ro and run labwc --reconfigure
commented

Unfortunately with those changes nothing changed, the behavior is the same as before after labwc --reconfigure.
But... uncommenting dbus-update-activation-environment --all in autostart (why didn't I do that before?) and a reboot did the trick meaning that AltGr + a = ă exactly like setxkbmap ro from X while alt-shift + a did nothing. Good to know. I will try also with XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us see if changes anything.
Thanks a lot for your patience, problem solved.

commented

Unfortunately with those changes nothing changed, the behavior is the same as before after labwc --reconfigure.
But... uncommenting dbus-update-activation-environment --all in autostart (why didn't I do that before?) and a reboot did the trick meaning that AltGr + a = ă exactly like setxkbmap ro from X while alt-shift + a did nothing.
Thanks a lot for your help, problem solved.