fcitx5 VS libxkbcommon

Recently, I installed fcitx5 for something unrelated (Japanese input) and it magically fixed the issue. Whatever keyboard layout I have set will be universal across my machine. However, it created another issue where I can only switch my layout when I'm focused in a text box somewhere. Been trying to fix the problem for days now reading countless wikis and forums. Only other person I could find with the same issue was here, but I had already been using their solution since I started using fcitx5 (and obviously still have the issue).

I had already been using the method described as the solution here since I installed fcitx5. I'm really at a loss here. I have no clue how keyboard input works under the hood and I've been reading wikis and forums for days trying to figure out how this stuff works.

To allow use swaymsg to change the layout by fcitx is still a todo-task. https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/438

Also, have you seen this github thread, https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/263

libexec/fcitx5-wayland-launcher was added recently. It's probably better to use this to start Fcitx from Sway's config or a user systemd service (wanted by sway-session.target).

On Linux with the default keyboard handling by XKB this is currently not possible. I have submitted an enhancement request for the project: https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/317

here's the link to the full list of key codes

After play with the idea a little bit more, I think another issue that pervent kwin from working is due to https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/308

I think XKBCommon supports Wayland (it even supports evdev I think). It’s on the website: https://xkbcommon.org

i think the problem is that you capitalized semicolon. you need to use the names in this file: https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/blob/master/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-keysyms.h minus the XKBKEY prefix