Multilingual hotkeys?

[GGshcka]

If I switch from English to another language, I can’t use hotkeys. Is there a way to fix this without duplicating hotkeys for each language?

[dawsers]

It works like in Sway.

• If you use bindsym you are binding a particular realization of a key press according to the current layout, which means for different layouts, the key press generates a different symbol, and that is why they "don't work".
• To void this, you can use bindcode. It assigns a particular combination of physical key presses to the command, regardless of your layout. You need wev or a similar tool to see what number corresponds to a key press combination. You can also use variables to avoid impossible to understand key bindings, for example assigning the numeric code to something more meaningful.
• bindsym accepts a --to-code argument. that is a "hybrid" mode between the two above. They keysyms you assign will be translated into the corresponding key codes for the first configured layout.

For some background, you can read this long thread:

swaywm#3058

For more details on the commands: man 5 scroll