setup qwerty-fr layout

[AdrienLemaire]

I'm trying to get the qwerty-fr package up and running.

After installing it with nix , I tried updating userprefs.conf with the additional kb_layout, but it wasn't recognized as a correct argument.

input {
    kb_layout = us #,qwerty-fr <= not working
    resolve_binds_by_sym = 1
    follow_mouse = 1

    touchpad {
        natural_scroll = no
    }

    sensitivity = 0
    force_no_accel = 1
    numlock_by_default = true
}
device {
  name = pebble-k380s
  kb_layout = jp
}

exec-once=fcitx5 -d -r
exec-once=fcitx5-remote -r   

I couldn't find the qwerty-fr layout in fcitx5-config-qt as well.

Do you know what is the correct way to get qwerty-fr up and running on hyprland ?

Same question asked on the qwerty-fr repo
Follow-up bug issue opened in nixpkgs

[fufexan]

This won't work well in Nixpkgs due to how xkb is handled. What I would try is setting https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=24.11&show=services.xserver.xkb.extraLayouts.%3Cname%3E.symbolsFile&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=xkb+symbols to the contents of this file https://github.com/qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr/blob/master/linux/us_qwerty-fr.

Can be done like this:

services.xserver.xkb.extraLayouts."qwerty-fr" = {
  languages = ["eng" "fra"];
  symbolsFile = "${pkgs.qwerty-fr}/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us_qwerty-fr";
};

[AdrienLemaire]

It does :)

hydenix on  master [$!+] on ☁️   ➜ fd qwerty-fr /nix/store/imczb6qwq592q3sa53593b2r96qpw9y9-xkeyboard-config-2.42/etc/X11/xkb
/nix/store/imczb6qwq592q3sa53593b2r96qpw9y9-xkeyboard-config-2.42/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/qwerty-fr

[fufexan]

That should work, but if you say that layout = us, variant = qwerty-fr doesn't work, then maybe xkbcommon needs to be patched. Something like this https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix#L679.

[fufexan]

I'm not sure whether input:kb_file would work with the file above, but it's worth a try.

[AdrienLemaire]

input:kb_file doesn't seem to work

[AdrienLemaire]

I saved this file:

qwerty-fr.patch

# install layout files
${lib.optionalString (layout.compatFile   != null) "cp '${layout.compatFile}'   'compat/${name}'"}
${lib.optionalString (layout.geometryFile != null) "cp '${layout.geometryFile}' 'geometry/${name}'"}
${lib.optionalString (layout.keycodesFile != null) "cp '${layout.keycodesFile}' 'keycodes/${name}'"}
${lib.optionalString (layout.symbolsFile  != null) "cp '${layout.symbolsFile}'  'symbols/${name}'"}
${lib.optionalString (layout.typesFile    != null) "cp '${layout.typesFile}'    'types/${name}'"}

# add model description
${ed}/bin/ed -v rules/base.xml <<EOF
/<\/modelList>
-
a
<model>
  <configItem>
    <name>${name}</name>
    <description>${layout.description}</description>
    <vendor>${layout.description}</vendor>
  </configItem>
</model>
.
w
EOF

# add layout description
${ed}/bin/ed -v rules/base.xml <<EOF
/<\/layoutList>
-
a
<layout>
  <configItem>
    <name>${name}</name>
    <shortDescription>${name}</shortDescription>
    <description>${layout.description}</description>
    <languageList>
      ${lib.concatMapStrings (lang: "<iso639Id>${lang}</iso639Id>\n") layout.languages}
    </languageList>
  </configItem>
  <variantList/>
</layout>
.
w
EOF

Then updated my config as follow:

{ inputs, userPkgs, ... }:
let
  customLibxkbcommon = userPkgs.libxkbcommon.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
    patches = (oldAttrs.patches or []) ++ [
      ./qwerty-fr.patch
    ];
  });
in
{
  environment.systemPackages = with userPkgs; [ 
    customLibxkbcommon

The resulting rebuild is:

hydenix on  master [$+] on ☁️   took 18s ➜ sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#xps13-9320
warning: Git tree '/home/dori/Projects/Perso/hydenix' is dirty
building the system configuration...
warning: Git tree '/home/dori/Projects/Perso/hydenix' is dirty
evaluation warning: dori profile: You have enabled hyprland.systemd.enable or listed plugins in hyprland.plugins but do not have any configuration in hyprland.settings or hyprland.extraConfig. This is almost certainly a mistake.
error: builder for '/nix/store/0s184jnbdcpd3vacb200hjdzzhnvh8f2-libxkbcommon-1.7.0.drv' failed with exit code 2;
       last 9 log lines:
       > Running phase: unpackPhase
       > unpacking source archive /nix/store/9f38s9mwyds4xhbinxcjdpsvsil88zl9-libxkbcommon-1.7.0.tar.xz
       > source root is libxkbcommon-1.7.0
       > setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to timestamp 1711229023 of file libxkbcommon-1.7.0/xkbregistry.map
       > Running phase: patchPhase
       > applying patch /nix/store/d3vmnjyjvd425m7m02rwbl6a0i1xw862-disable-x11com.patch
       > patching file meson.build
       > applying patch /nix/store/apwvh7nkgwa7bqmcxld0l4avg1n338cv-qwerty-fr.patch
       > patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/0s184jnbdcpd3vacb200hjdzzhnvh8f2-libxkbcommon-1.7.0.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/higjk1zyg2wcqpwx066l0a5zbyjz3p7q-system-path.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/4cal6zxj7i6n2kgbvzqgiww1whq5fa99-nixos-system-xps13-9320-24.11.20241023.2768c7d.drv' failed to build

@fufexan did I get the patch wrong ?
This doesn't look like a patch to me, I'm used to seeing git-diff like code.

[AdrienLemaire]

Finally could get it working with the trick in qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr#49 (comment) and using `kb_layout = us_qwerty-fr 🎉