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Nlk29

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Registered: 2026-04-16

Posts: 1

Can't change Keyboard layout on Wayland beta

Hi,

I've installed the Wayland beta on Ubuntu 24.04 and i am using Wayfire as a compositor. Since the keyboard settings doesn't yet run on Wayland, I've tried to edit wayfire.ini with no effect and i suspect that it is being completely ignored.
Currently, my config looks like this:

[input]
xkb_layout=de
xkb_options=grp:alt_shift_toggle
xkb_rules=evdev

Ariana1

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Registered: 2026-04-17

Posts: 1

Re: Can't change Keyboard layout on Wayland beta

I’ve run into something similar with Wayfire on wlroots before—those input settings can be a bit misleading because the file is read, but only at compositor start, and sometimes people end up editing a config that isn’t actually the one being loaded.

A few things worth checking:

Make sure you’re editing ~/.config/wayfire.ini (not a system-wide or sample config that isn’t active).
Wayfire only applies [input] settings on startup, so a full restart of the Wayfire session is required (logging out/in usually isn’t enough if the session isn’t fully killed).

In some setups, the key might need to be plural depending on the version/build:

xkb_layouts = de

(even though older examples show xkb_layout).

If it’s still ignored, check your logs (~/.local/share/wayfire/wayfire.log) to see whether the input plugin is actually loading your config or falling back to defaults.

Also, since you’re on Wayland beta + Wayfire, there are still a few quirks with input handling depending on wlroots version—upgrading Wayfire/wlroots sometimes fixes “silent ignore” config issues.

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Last edited by Ariana1 (2026-04-17 06:47:54)

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