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fix(sway): use the us(dvorak) variant, not a "dvorak" layout

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Dvorak is a variant of the "us" XKB layout, not a layout of its own:
there is no symbols/dvorak file, so "dvorak" fails to compile.

In the greetd/cage greeter the keymap comes solely from XKB_DEFAULT_*, so
the failure left the greeter with no keymap and therefore no keyboard
input at all (mouse unaffected). Split it into
XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us + XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=dvorak.

The same mistake in the Sway session (home/sway.nix) was masked: the
default us keymap compiled and the failing override was silently dropped,
so the session ran QWERTY despite the dvorak setting. Use xkb_variant
there too so it is actually Dvorak.

console.keyMap = "dvorak" (workstation.nix) is unaffected -- that is a
kbd console map, a separate subsystem where "dvorak" is valid.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Emma Thorpe
2026-06-09 18:31:47 +01:00
parent 69ba65bde3
commit eb1704764f
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lyrathorpe/home/sway.nix
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@@ -26,7 +26,13 @@
# Launcher: sway-launcher-desktop running inside a floating foot window.
menu = "${pkgs.foot}/bin/foot --app-id=launcher ${pkgs.sway-launcher-desktop}/bin/sway-launcher-desktop";
input."type:keyboard".xkb_layout = "dvorak";
# Dvorak is a variant of the "us" layout, not a standalone layout --
# `xkb_layout = "dvorak"` fails to compile (no symbols/dvorak) and wlroots
# silently falls back to QWERTY. Use the variant.
input."type:keyboard" = {
xkb_layout = "us";
xkb_variant = "dvorak";
};
window.commands = [
{
lyrathorpe/swaywm.nix
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@@ -52,13 +52,17 @@ in
# features.swayDesktop (e.g. EDaaS) keep plain TTY login.
programs.regreet.enable = true;
# cage reads the XKB_* environment at startup, so force the greeter onto the
# same Dvorak layout as the console (workstation.nix) and the Sway session
# (home/sway.nix) -- otherwise the password field would be QWERTY. This
# overrides the greetd command regreet sets with mkDefault.
# same Dvorak layout as the Sway session (home/sway.nix) -- otherwise the
# password field would be QWERTY. Dvorak is the "us" layout's variant, NOT a
# layout of its own: "dvorak" alone has no symbols/ file, so the keymap
# fails to compile and the greeter ends up with no keyboard at all (the
# greeter has no fallback, unlike a running Sway session). This overrides the
# greetd command regreet sets with mkDefault.
services.greetd.settings.default_session.command =
let
greeter = pkgs.writeShellScript "regreet-cage" ''
export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=dvorak
export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us
export XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=dvorak
exec ${pkgs.dbus}/bin/dbus-run-session ${lib.getExe pkgs.cage} -s -- ${lib.getExe config.programs.regreet.package}
'';
in