| Summary: | KWin doesn't expose a way to use one keymap per keyboard | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Pierre Ducroquet <pinaraf> |
| Component: | input | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aeris, dev, kde, postix |
| Priority: | NOR | Flags: | mgraesslin:
Wayland+
mgraesslin: X11- |
| Version: | 5.8.7 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
I wasn't aware that such a feature in X existed. It sounds interesting. I don't have a real idea yet how to implement it, but it's certainly something which could be done. Basically all that's needed is to switch the layout to the one specified whenever the keyboard is used. The problem is how to do this specifying. Personally I would prefer if that would be a hint through udev. An udev rule would work, I just thought it would be nice to be able to configure that using the GUI only…
FYI, under X11, I configure it manually with xinput/setxkbmap that way :
~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TypeMatrix.com USB Keyboard id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Yubico Yubikey 4 OTP+U2F+CCID id=18 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ TypeMatrix.com USB Keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ TypeMatrix.com USB Keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
~$ setxkbmap -device 11 fr bepo
Hello, I bump this bug after 5 years, because I'm hitting it on KDE 5 Wayland. Same here, I'm using FR-BEPO layout for my main keyboard (Moonlander), but have a secondary Typematrix keyboard and I need to use US for Yubikey (physically hardcoded to send US keycode). So my X11 config is: ``` Section "InputClass" Identifier "default" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbVariant" "bepo" Option "XkbOptions" "kpdl:kposs,grp:sclk_toggle,compose:lwin" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "typematrix" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" MatchVendor "TypeMatrix.com" Option "XkbModel" "tm2030USB-102" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbVariant" "bepo" Option "XkbOptions" "kpdl:kposs,grp:sclk_toggle,compose:lwin" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "moonlander" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" MatchVendor "ZSA" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbVariant" "bepo" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "yubikey" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" MatchVendor "Yubico" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbVariant" "basic" EndSection ``` Currently Wayland is broken because only one layout is possible, and so I can't have the correct keyboard model (tm2030USB-102 / pc105) or layout (FR-BEPO / US / FR) based on the related physical keyboard. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 177889 *** |
Hi With Wayland, the responsibilities of the Window Manager are much greater than under X11. I have got a quite special use case that has never been covered in KWin or the keyboard KCM before, but with Wayland I can not use xinput/setxkbmap anymore to work around it. My main keyboard is a TypeMatrix 2030 with a Bépo layout (a french dvorak-like keymap). That keymap doesn't share anything with the classical qwerty/qwertz/azerty keymaps. When I use a yubikey to generate one time token, I have to set the keymap of the yubikey only to a qwerty layout for it to generate proper tokens. I also have a «classical» keyboard attached to the computer when guests come and want to use the computer. Right now, KWin and its input configuration system can not handle that usecase. I must switch the keymap when I want to use the guest keyboard, that is ok, but switching keymap every time I want to generate a token is a serious burden. Could that feature be implemented with a configuration system like the one used in Xorg ? For instance : Section "InputClass" Identifier "typematrix-keyboard" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchVendor "TypeMatrix" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbVariant" "bepo" EndSection Thanks