Keyboard switches and awesome

2015-11-17 Thread Riccardo Sven Risuleo
Hi all, I have a problem that has been bugging me for a while, and I hope somebody knows how to solve it... I have a keyboard layout switch, set with setxkbmap -layout us,us -variant dvorak, -option caps:escape,grp:toggle,grp:alts_toggle,grp_led:caps This will allow me to toggle my layout from

Re: Keyboard switches and awesome

2015-11-17 Thread akv
>Вторник, 17 ноября 2015, 9:25 UTC от Riccardo Sven Risuleo >: > >Hi all, >I have a problem that has been bugging me for a while,  and I hope somebody >knows how to solve it... > >I have a keyboard layout switch, set with > >setxkbmap -layout us,us -variant dvorak, -option >caps:escape,grp:to

Re: Keyboard switches and awesome

2015-11-17 Thread Riccardo Sven Risuleo
Thanks for your reply, sadly that did not solve the problem: the command bindings in awesome do not follow the keyboard layout when I use groups. On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:10 PM a...@altlinux.org wrote: > > > > Вторник, 17 ноября 2015, 9:25 UTC от Riccardo Sven Risuleo < > riccardos...@gmail.com

Re: Keyboard switches and awesome

2015-11-17 Thread Max Görner
I'm using the german variant neo2 on a regular basis. To enable others to use my computers the layout can be switched to regular german layout. My experience is as yours but on a much broader basis. KDE, Gnome, XFCE and Awesome had this behaviour and it goes so far that even shortcuts as 'CTRL+C'

Re: Keyboard switches and awesome

2015-11-17 Thread Samuel Walladge
Does it work when you switch/set the layout using just the plain `setxkbmap us ...` or `setxkbmap us -variant dvorak ...`, instead of its builtin toggling? I have those commands linked to hotkeys in awesome, and never had this problem. -- *Regards,* *Samuel Walladge.* On 18 November 2015 at 02:02

Re: Keyboard switches and awesome

2015-11-17 Thread Riccardo Sven Risuleo
yes, that will indeed work perfectly... And it is one way to solve the issue :) However, since we have the option of grouping layouts in localectl, these should behave as expected in awesome :) I think this is a bug to be reported, but if it affects other window/desktop managers as Max said, I do