Found it:

export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT="gb"
export XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="caps:escape,altwin:swap_lalt_lwin"

did the trick.


Il giorno lunedì 16 agosto 2021 alle 20:27:51 UTC+1 Vasco Gervasi ha 
scritto:

> Thanks for the suggestion.
> I have managed to change layout by adding:
>
> from libqtile import qtile
> qtile.core.set_keymap(layout="gb", options="", variant="")
>
> The next step would be to apply "caps:escape" and "altwin:swap_lalt_lwin" 
> options.
>
> The following:
>
> qtile.core.set_keymap(layout="gb", 
> options="caps:escape,altwin:swap_lalt_lwin", variant="")
>
> It is swapping caps with escape but not alt and win.
>
> Any ideas?
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> Il giorno lunedì 16 agosto 2021 alle 16:52:09 UTC+1 Fabien-Bernard ha 
> scritto:
>
>> Hello,
>> Have you tried the KeyboardLayout widget?
>> https://docs.qtile.org/en/stable/manual/ref/widgets.html#keyboardlayout
>>
>> Le dim. 15 août 2021 à 20:27, Vasco Gervasi <[email protected]> a 
>> écrit :
>>
>>> No problem.
>>> From my understanding in Wayland the compositor and the server are 
>>> merged. That's why the "compositor" config file contains also the input 
>>> options.  
>>>
>>> Il giorno domenica 15 agosto 2021 alle 19:18:38 UTC+1 [email protected] 
>>> ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Ah, sorry. I misunderstood. I'm honestly not sure how to change from US 
>>>> to UK (or other physical layouts). I'm not sure where the divide between 
>>>> "X" tools and the x server is, though I would be surprised if Wayland 
>>>> reimplemented the inputs system.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 11:57 Vasco Gervasi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am sorry, is this page about change the key bindings?
>>>>> I am looking for keyboard layout, like "us", "gb", .... 
>>>>> Am I not reading correctly the documentation?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Il giorno domenica 15 agosto 2021 alle 17:54:27 UTC [email protected] 
>>>>> ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/config/keys.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 11:46 Vasco Gervasi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am sorry, What is the normal way to change keymap?
>>>>>>> Is "setxkbmap" X only?
>>>>>>> In sway you set the keyboard/mouse settings in the config file. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Il giorno sabato 14 agosto 2021 alle 17:22:22 UTC [email protected] 
>>>>>>> ha scritto:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see no reason why the normal way of changing key maps would work 
>>>>>>>> differently for Wayland than X.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 15:10 Vasco Gervasi <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>> I would like to use qtile in a wayland only environment.
>>>>>>>>> How can I to change the keyboard layout?
>>>>>>>>> I can see there is some code to "set_keymap" but I do not 
>>>>>>>>> understand how do I call it from the config.py file.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
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