Sxhkd using 2 layouts at the same time?

[MarcoPolo-PasTonMolo]

I'm on arch linux running bspwm with sxhkd.
I'm mainly a dvorak guy and that's what I want sxhkd to be using.

I recently updated my system and I'm not sure but I think that has been the cause for some weird behaviour.
It appears that sxhkd is using 2 layouts. Qwerty and dvorak at the same time. super + ,(w in qwerty) and super + w both close windows.
super + d(h in qwerty) and super + h both switch to the left window. Yes I have sxhkd -m -1 in my bspwmrc.

At the same time some keymaps I have defined, stopped working or use the qwerty version instead of the dvorak one. super + r(o in qwerty, this one acts as super + o), super + v (. in qwerty) and super + n (l in qwerty, acts as super + l when I want it to act as super + n).

[fdioguardi]

I'm running the same setup on my pc.

Although I don't know exactly what's causing it, I was able to solve it temporarily by downgrading xkeyboard-config to version 3.36-3:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xkeyboard-config-2.36-3-any.pkg.tar.zst

[MarcoPolo-PasTonMolo]

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xkeyboard-config-2.36-3-any.pkg.tar.zst

This worked thank you. How did you figure that out exactly?

[fdioguardi]

This worked thank you. How did you figure that out exactly?

As soon as I noticed something wrong, I looked at the logs to see the list of packages that were updated recently. Judging only by their names, xkeyboard-config was the most likely to be the culprit.

Then I just downgraded to a previous version, rebooted to see if it had worked, and added it to the list of pacman's ignored packages to avoid further updates until it was solved.

[BlueDrink9]

Thanks for helping with this, driving me nuts. Opened an issue with xkeyboard-config here

[douglasrizzo]

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xkeyboard-config-2.36-3-any.pkg.tar.zst

Had the same problem. This fixed it for me. Putting a description of my issue below.

Setup

ABNT2 keyboard. Shortcuts bound to super + {bracketleft,bracketright,dead_acute}.

Steps to reproduce

1. Log in.
2. Change from ABNT2 keymap to US International: setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl.
3. Change back from US International to ABNT2 keymap: setxkbmap -layout br -variant abnt2.

What happens

1. The shortcuts bound to bracketleft and bracketright are activated with dead_acute and bracketleft instead.
2. The shortcut bound to dead_acute doesn't work anymore.

More info

When I first log in and if I never change my keyboard layouts, all shortcuts work correctly. It seems to me that changing from an initial layout to another triggers the issue:

• sxhkd swapping keys when using super #291 user with Brazilian keyboard, changes layout with setxkbmap in .xinitrc, has multiple shortcuts swapped.
• bracketleft and bracketright both treated as the same keybind #297 user changes layout with setxkbmap in bspwmrc, has problems in bracketleft, bracketright keys.

[ncfavier]

I've investigated this a bit and I think I'm close to a fix. I've asked upstream for guidance as I don't expect @baskerville to be responsive.