SUMMARY I've always used keyboard layouts and always had the layout icon displayed in system tray. Now I switched to Wayland and in there the icon is not displayed, even though Keyboard Layout is set to "Always shown" under Entries. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use Wayland session 2. Configure multiple (I have 2) keyboard layouts OBSERVED RESULT Keyboard Layout icon is not shown in system tray. EXPECTED RESULT Keyboard Layout icon is shown in system tray. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11
Does it appear if you restart plasmashell with `systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell.service`?
Ah, it's just Bug 449531, which is fixed in Plasma 6. In which case, to answer my own question, yes it should. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 449531 ***
> Does it appear if you restart plasmashell with `systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell.service`? No, it does not. I've restarted plasmashell many times after starting using Wayland, but I've never once seen the keyboard layout icon at system tray under Wayland.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2) > Ah, it's just Bug 449531, which is fixed in Plasma 6 I did read through that bug first too, and it seemed to me that what I hit was not that.
Ok, maybe not then. Can you add it to the desktop as a standalone widget? If you do, does it work as expected?
Nope, the widget doesn't work either. The error copied from it: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.keyboardlayout/contents/ui/main.qml:14:1: KeyboardLayoutButton is not a type
Please try this workaround: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470737#c15
(In reply to Andrey from comment #7) > Please try this workaround: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470737#c15 That does not help in my case. Error is still the same.
Can you try to reproduce in VM?
(In reply to Andrey from comment #9) > Can you try to reproduce in VM? I tried out using Wayland session in my other Manjaro computer and in there the keyboard layout icon works OK, although the installed software is pretty much the same.
(In reply to Silver Salonen from comment #6) > Nope, the widget doesn't work either. The error copied from it: > file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.keyboardlayout/contents/ui/ > main.qml:14:1: KeyboardLayoutButton is not a type This seems like either a code error in the applet, or a packaging error in the distro. Andrey, do you have any idea which one it could be? FWIW on Fedora KDE in a Plasma 6 Wayland session I see no such error. No issue for me in the past on Plasma 5 Wayland either.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11) > This seems like either a code error in the applet, or a packaging error in > the distro. Andrey, do you have any idea which one it could be? FWIW on > Fedora KDE in a Plasma 6 Wayland session I see no such error. No issue for > me in the past on Plasma 5 Wayland either. I don't think it's a packaging issue as it works OK in another computer with the same versions distro and packages.
May be some upgrade issue, hard to guess. That is why I asked try in VM - without a way to reproduce we hardly can do anything here, and would have to close it as a "downstream" issue, whatever..