https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478048
Bug ID: 478048
Summary: Cannot configure Win as a modifier to change keyboard
layout in X applications running in XWayland
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: 5.27.9
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: input
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: eric.bru...@lps.ens.fr
Target Milestone: ---
I am using KDE+Wayland on a fully uptodate Fedora 39 laptop.
My `.config/kxkbrc` file looks like this:
```
[$Version]
update_info=kxkb.upd:remove-empty-lists,kxkb.upd:add-back-resetoptions,kxkb_variants.upd:split-variants
[Layout]
DisplayNames=,
LayoutList=fr,gr
Options=grp:win_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
ResetOldOptions=true
Use=true
VariantList=oss,polytonic
```
With the `grp:win_switch` setting, while I press the "Windows" key of my
laptop, the keyboard layout is changed to greek. (So that `Win+d` gives `δ`,
for instance.)
This works very well, except in X applications running under XWayland. Then,
this specific shortcut does not work. Hitting `Win+d` only gives `d`. I have
tried xterm and thunderbird. (Nota: I don't care about xterm, but I'd like to
have thunderbird for X working. I cannot, unfortunately, use thunderbird for
wayland as I have an extension which only works with the X version.)
Note that other shortcuts are working fine. For instance, as can be seen in my
`.kxkbrc`, I configured the right Ctrl key to work as Compose, and this works
perfectly in wayland and X applications. I have many personal shortcuts defined
in a .XCompose file which work perfectly well.
(As a workaround, I tried to add the option `grp:lctrl_lwin_toggle` to my
`.kxkbrc`, but then I hit another bug, see bug 478046.)
To summarize, I think that keyboard should behave in the same way under native
wayland applications and X applications. It is nearly the case but,
unfortunately, some options such as `grp:win_switch` do not work in X
applications under XWayland.
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