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Fulgurance
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 Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:20 am Post subject: Set keyboard on Wayland |
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Hello, i have little question. How is it possible to set keyboard map on Wayland ? I search but i don't found anything.
Is there same program as setxkbmap for Wayland ? |
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Mr. T.
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mike155
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Fulgurance,
that depends on the Wayland compositor you use. Which one do you use?
If you use Weston, for example, you could add the lines below to your weston.ini file:
| Code: | [keyboard]
keymap_model=pc105
keymap_layout=de
keymap_variant=nodeadkeys |
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Fulgurance
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I don't understand what is exactly compositor, but i would like to use sway (i3 for wayland).
And i have second question, is it possible to use lightdm to start wayland session ? |
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Mr. T.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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uhm, I do not know. I believe the compositor controls the whole composition made by all Wayland clients like a conductor (music).
| freedesktop.org wrote: | | The Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. [...] |
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager
A window manager may be launched from command line so LightDM may probably start it. Anyway, the administrator must perform some configuration (read "note") to enable the system. |
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mike155
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Fulgurance,
I start(ed) sway like this (well, I last used Sway a couple of months ago, when I tested and compared all major Wayland compositors):
| Code: | export $(dbus-launch) # recommended, if sway was compiled with USE flag 'tray'
export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=de,us
export XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=nodeadkeys,
sway -dV >/tmp/sway-output 2>&1 |
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Fulgurance
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Okay thanks, and how i configure status bar with sway, for example set date format or add item?
And i have other question. Wayland is now mature or it isn't ready to use ? Recommend or not ? |
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fcl
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Wayland is pretty minimal in its design. It leaves most of the heavy lifting to others, eg. Gnome, KDE or in this case Sway. Arguably Gnome Wayland has been quite usable for some time now although all the Wayland compositors have their own problems and insufficiencies (which are ever so slowly being resolved/fixed).
As for Sway, it is currently being ported to use wlroots instead of wlc as its backend Wayland compositor library. This will fix many of its longstanding problems, eg. display output rotation. See the latest 1.0 alpha release for info.
edit: to answer your question more clearly: it depends on your needs if Wayland is mature enough. If you need something like OBS Studio for desktop recording, then no. Wayland compositors aren't there yet. PipeWire seems to be "The New Thing(TM)" to fix it all (and be pushed to everything and everyone like PulseAudio and systemd)  |
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