Selecting links by keyboard ignores X/Wayland keyboard layouts

[jfmcbrayer]

I use a non-standard keyboard layout, English(Colemak). I am running Fedora Linux, and using Sway (a Wayland compositor) for my desktop. The keyboard layout is set in Sway's configuration using xkb. Generally this is no problem and in Lagrange, it works fine in the URL box.

However, for selecting links by key, if I hit the key mapped to 'f', the links are not highlighted. I must press the key that is actually labeled 'F' to highlight the links, and select the links using their US English keys, rather than their Colemak keys. That is to say, selecting links works as if my keyboard were still set to US English.

The environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 is set, because SDL doesn't get along with Wayland on my system (Thinkpad X230, Intel graphics), which means that Lagrange is running through Xwayland, if that makes a difference.

[skyjake]

It's likely not possible to change the way SDL treats the keyboard events, but I could add a configuration file for specifying which keys are used for home row navigation. (Pretty much like issue #87.) The home row keys are currently hardcoded so it would be nice to have them configurable in any case.

[jfmcbrayer]

I checked this against an Xorg session not under Wayland, and it appears to work correctly. So actually, this is probably either an Xwayland bug, or a Sway bug, though this is the first app I've seen exercise it.

[skyjake]

In that case, I'll close the issue... I'm guessing there aren't that many non-game apps doing custom GUI over SDL. 🙂 I also currently don't have a Wayland setup to try reproducing this.

We can reopen if some details come to light that let me influence the behavior from within Lagrange.

[skyjake]

Added #222 for the configurable home row keys.

[Soundtoxin]

@jfmcbrayer Do you have multiple keyboard layouts enabled that you can switch between? If so, test with only Colemak enabled. You may be hitting this bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2682
edit: there are like 4 gtk bugs marked duplicate, this one that should be related was recently fixed, supposedly. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/1825
I have been working around it by only having my desired current layout enabled in my sway config and changing the config when needed.