Language/keyboard layout module

[madfanat]

Request
It would be great to have a built-in module similar to Waybar’s "sway/language" or "hyprland/language".

[JakeStanger]

Could you expand on the request please, as I don't have the context on what Waybar's module does, or what you potentially want this one to do differently?

[madfanat]

Well, shortly, the main feature of both these modules is the display of the current keyboard layout/language (qwerty, dvorak, ENG, RUS, etc whatever you want). Also, it’s nice to have a popup box with these settings.

[yavko]

Well, shortly, the main feature of both these modules is the display of the current keyboard layout/language (qwerty, dvorak, ENG, RUS, etc whatever you want). Also, it’s nice to have a popup box with these settings.

For hyprland I think the layoutchanged event in hyprland-rs can be used, but I'm not totally sure

[JakeStanger]

Is there any standardised protocol/service this should be using, or is it down to the compositor to expose over its IPC?

[yavko]

I'm pretty sure it's compositor specific

[bluebyt]

I tried to do a script for Ironbar to do that, I can change the current layout with this command:

hyprctl switchxkblayout logitech-craft next

But I cannot get the current layout like explained in this tread:
hyprwm/Hyprland#2616

[quietvoid]

I'm using a script module for this in Sway but it doesn't seem possible for the layout to update automatically without having to set a low interval.

Looks something like this

$keyboard_layout = {
    type = "script"
    name = "sway_keyboard"
    class = "sway-keyboard"

    cmd = "swaymsg -t get_inputs | jq -r 'map(select(has(\"xkb_active_layout_name\")))[0].xkb_active_layout_name'"
    mode = "poll"
    interval = 2000
}