Does this still work?

[RJDan]

Is this still working? Do you know if it works on wayland?

[nightuser]

Hi @RJDan

It should work, at least in theory. Although it is probably incompatible with the current Ubuntu styling and some other stuff.

Regarding the Wayland support, no, it uses LibXklavier as the main library. However, this project used Xfce's layout indicator as an inspiration, so if it supports Wayland (I'm not sure), then it should be possible to backport it.

May I ask you why do you need an alternative layout indicator? From my experience, the Gnome one improved quite a bit since the time I wrote this indicator.

[RJDan]

Hello
I am searching for a xkb layer indicator app but there doesn't seem to be one. I thought I might try search for something that could be co-opted.

[nightuser]

@RJDan I can try to build and test it tomorrow in a VM. Since XKB – which states for X Keyboard – is a part of Xorg, I'm a bit confused about your question about Wayland. Anyway, I expect it to work with minimal changes, except for the indicator images for layouts: the current implementation relies on some hardcoded paths from an old Ubuntu release, although it's quite easy to fix.

UPD: Have you tried https://code.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-keyboard/trunk ?

[RJDan]

Hello @nightuser
Sorry for ghosting. Thanks for the offer. I was looking for a quick solution which doesnt seem to exist.
I am on sway (so wayland) and I have started using kmonad for keyboard layers. I thought it would be good to have a way to "see" what layer I am on (shift, level three etc). I tried using the LEDs built into the laptop but I didnt get very far with that.