Can't retrieve the value of the current xkb layout

[vdegenne]

I have this in my config

xkb_layout = us,fr
xkb_model = 
xkb_options = grp:win_space_toggle
xkb_rules = evdev
xkb_variant = 

after reboot, it works, win+space to altern between us and fr.

However I wanted to show the value of the current layout in the panel. I tried every way possible to get the current layout value, tried all answers on Linux stackexchange. Asked AI and tried many solutions, none of which worked.
How on earth do you retrieve the value of the current layout in wayfire?

Note: All the methods I've tried always return "us" and seems they can't detect the change, even worse it seems they can't detect they are multiple layouts being set.

[soreau]

@vdegenne You should be able to get the keyboard layout with this ipc method, at least.

[vdegenne]

Thanks, unfortunately I get an error like

Error: Error 1: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/fedora/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/wayfire/ipc.py", line 101, in send_json
    response = self.read_message()
  File "/home/fedora/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/wayfire/ipc.py", line 72, in read_message
    raise Exception(f"Method {response['method']} is not available. \
                              ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'method'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/fedora/gits/wf-cli/scripts/get-keyboard-layout.py", line 7, in <module>
    print(sock.get_keyboard_layout())
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/home/fedora/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/wayfire/ipc.py", line 178, in get_keyboard_layout
    return self.send_json(message)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^

I'll report there

[soreau]

You will have to enable ipc-rules plugin for this method to work.

[soreau]

You also need the latest pywayfire, which can be downloaded from git and installed with:

pip install .

[vdegenne]

Yes I'm already on pywayfire 3.2 and ipc-rules is active, but I still get the error

[soreau]

Make sure to check wayfire -d |& grep ipc-rules to see if it's loading. Also check grep get_keyboard_layout ~/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/wayfire/ipc.py to see the method exists in your current pywayfire installation.

[vdegenne]

WayfireWM/pywayfire#30 (comment)

[killown]

Your wayfire version has no wayfire/get-keyboard-state you need compile wayfire from git

[soreau]

Yes I was just about to ask, what is the output of wayfire --version? It seems this method was added here, so you will need at least that commit. Thanks @killown.

[vdegenne]

0.9.0-unknown (Oct 7 2024) branch unknown

I'm using fedora default package of wayfire
You think that's the reason?

F... I remember trying to compile and install wayfire myself but it was a mess and gave up:/

[soreau]

If you need help compiling latest wayfire, please join chat for support.

[vdegenne]

I'll consider when I have time. Thanks a bunch for your help guys. Btw I decided to start a CLI Node wrapper, if some of you are interested (https://github.com/vdegenne/wf-ipcli)

[soreau]

This requires wayfire git, or the imminent 0.10.0 release.