the new keyboard layout indicator & the new code for icons

[Yury]

Hi all,

1) How's the new keyboard layout indicator
supposed to work? Is it doing its thing dynamically?

It never shows anything but "Us", although I
have two other layouts in my configuration and
they are actually working.

2) The new code for icons -- is it in its final
form? I lost DownloadThemAll icons in browser
addon's window. Now its all browser's icon. If I
change it & set the option of "ignoring client
supplied icon", all icons in all browser windows
get changed.
Which is likely not what was intended.
Addon's window "class" in the icon dialog
"DTA.Pale moon"
and the browser's window "class" is
"Navigator.Pale moon"


-Yury

[david.m...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, 29 March 2026 at 15:27:08 UTC-4 Yury wrote:

Hi all,

1) How's the new keyboard layout indicator
supposed to work? Is it doing its thing dynamically?

It never shows anything but "Us", although I
have two other layouts in my configuration and
they are actually working.

Yes it should be automatic, it uses xkbfile library.

You can find the layout used on your system with the command:

$ setxkbmap -query|grep layout

[Yury]

On 29/03/2026 23:57, david.m...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 March 2026 at 15:27:08 UTC-4 Yury wrote:
> It never shows anything but "Us", although I
> have two other layouts in my configuration and
> they are actually working.
> Yes it should be automatic, it uses xkbfile library.
> You can find the layout used on your system with the command:
> $ setxkbmap -query|grep layout

Somehow that info extraction failed in my case.
It showed me one layout "us" and a very basic
XKB configuration. That's why I'd been getting
only "Us" in the indicator I suppose.

However at that same moment I had had my
keyboard layouts (plural) configured and working.

Only after I reapplied my keyboard configuration
all my layouts started showing.

I do my keyboard configuration for many years by
a one-line shell script calling `setxkbmap` with
arguments setting layouts, variants and options.
The script gets called at the start of Xwindows
session.

Can lots of WindowMaker restarts in the same
Xwindows session affect XKB information
retrieval? I reiterate, `setxkbmap -query` was
reporting incorrectly.

-Yury

[david.m...@gmail.com]

I did not experience that issue myself, but do recall someone mentioned it at https://github.com/window-maker/wmaker/issues/55

If you are able to reproduce it, please share the steps.