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<fleischie>
Hello. I am trying to set the compose key and used `riverctl keyboard-layout` but I am unsure, whether this worked. How would I debug this?
<fleischie>
Or let me be more specific: Does this set a config file somewhere? Somehow that this is also preserved over sessions?
<fleischie>
Because using the command does work for the current session.
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<pkap>
fleischie: riverctl commands are per river session. Commonly you put them in your river init file so it will set when river launches. To set the compose key you need to look for the compose options in the xkeyboard-config manpage
<fleischie>
OK. And this is the only mechanism that river offers in terms of keyboard setup?
<fleischie>
I know that my previous river setup (I am on a new laptop) had something, that made the setup automatic without a river init command. :thinking:
<fleischie>
On the other hand I have tried so many things now, that I forgot which way the correct one was.
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<pkap>
fleischie: there is another way in form of the XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT and XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS environment variables. If you set these before you launch river, river will set up the keyboard layout accordingly.
<pkap>
Probably this is what you had in your previous config.
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<fleischie>
I will have to check..
<fleischie>
OK, seems previously I was using a custom script that would start river after setting exactly those XKB_DEFAULT_ environment variables. Now it's "just" starting `river`, hence no setting of environment variables.
<fleischie>
Thank you pkap. 🫶
<fleischie>
If anybody else is conflicted by this: I use ly that - by default - starts river only by calling `river`. But it also - again by default - bootstraps the environment by means of exporting all of one's shell's profile. Hence I added the $XKB_DEFAULT_ variables in there and that works.
<fleischie>
Thanks again.
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<Guest47_dave>
Hello! how do I go about remapping caps lock to control in river?
<leon-p>
Guest47_dave: you can set an xkboption, if you wait a minute I'll go looking for the right one
<ifreund>
(you can find all the options in the xkeyboard-config man page)
<leon-p>
I use caps:escape_shifted_compose to get Ctrl when caps is pressed along and compose when presses with shift
<leon-p>
(doesn't work on all keyboards though, not sure why)
<Guest47_dave>
leon-p ifreund great! looks like I set that with `keyboard-layout -options "..."` Thank you both
<leon-p>
note that it needs to be the same command that sets your layout, you can't first set the layout and then later set the options
<leon-p>
And ctrl:nocaps is the "normal" way to make caps behave as control
<FireFly>
different approach (and you can decide which you prefer better, there's tradeoffs), I use https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools for that kind of thing so it works transparently in both tty and graphical environments
<FireFly>
(well, actually for xcape-style "escape when tapped, ctrl when held" behaviour)
<Guest47_dave>
working perfectly (used: `riverctl keyboard-layout -options "caps:ctrl_modifier"`).