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 not really know where to file it... I will stick to switching via awesome hotkeys as Samuel suggested, for now! Thanks for the help! On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:52 PM Samuel Walladge <swalla...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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, Riccardo Sven Risuleo < > riccardos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 <gbophuk_...@mail.ru> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Вторник, 17 ноября 2015, 9:25 UTC от Riccardo Sven Risuleo < >>> riccardos...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 us to dvorak by pressing >>> both the alts keys. >>> This works perfectly, and the keymap switches fine, however all the >>> bindings for awesome do not change. For instance if I move between the >>> clients with 'hjkl' in dvorak mapping, I will move with 'jcvp' in the us >>> mapping. It is like the command is linked to the physical key on the >>> keyboard and not to the character sent... >>> >>> Does anyone know a solution to this? I have been able to replicate this >>> behaviour on two computers. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions, >>> Have a splendid day >>> Rsrsl >>> >>> >>> I found this blog >>> http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2011/12/24/getting-your-way-with-setxkbmap/ >>> And this >>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2884/toggle-between-dvorak-and-qwerty >>> >>> You can try switch between variants by this command : >>> setxkbmap -layout 'us(dvorak-intl),us(alt-intl)', -option >>> caps:escape,grp:toggle,grp:alts_toggle,grp_led:caps >>> >>> Warning I didn't check this! >>> --- >>> a...@altlinux.org >>> >> >
