Implement Wayland xcb layout options #712
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This is a behavior change. So I like to see an global option like "use system xkb option". Actually, with this change, you may rename this option to "use system xkb option" https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/blob/master/src/lib/fcitx/globalconfig.cpp#L162 and remove this option: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/blob/master/src/lib/fcitx/globalconfig.cpp#L173 Also, will you also work on expose this in the UI? https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5-configtool/ You may need to update fcitx5/src/modules/dbus/dbusmodule.cpp Line 172 in 46e0518 |
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Thank you for the feedback. I will make sure to have that global option in the final version. The last thing I was doing was reading the code. Before that I was installing the dev packages to get fcitx5-configtool to finally build. I need to fix a few strange problems of things randomly changing, and I need to understand the project to do that. I think this will take around 1 month, as I have university. Nobody else who might require this feature voted on GitHub, so I think timing shouldn't be a problem. |
Closes #705.
This feature allows uses to have fcitx5 manage their KDE Wayland XKB layout options when switching groups.
Missing things
Before
I wanted to have a French Dvorak layout to type accents with RALT/AltGr level3, and a Japanese Kana layout with RALT mapped to Henkan.
I could have fcitx5 have one of them working automatically when switching between them. I had to change the "3rd level shortcuts" in "KDE System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboards > Layouts." When level3 was enabled, the French worked but the Japanese didn't as the level3 option overrode my custom definition of RALT as Henkan. When level3 was disabled, the French obviously didn't work as it was not enabled, but my custom Japanese RALT Henkan worked as the level3 options was no longer overriding it.
After
I put
Default Layout Options=lv3:ralt_switch_multikeyin my French group in~/.config/fcitx5/profile, andDefault Layout Options=in my Japanese group. Now fcitx5 automatically controls my xcb keyboard layout so I can switch between languages conveniently.