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At wits end with sxhkd and layouts! (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone. So I am running bspwm with sxhkd, and while keybindings set by default work (i.e. super + enter opens terminal which I changed to alacritty) I can't seem to be able to add any new ones - at least that will work.

I've looked into it extensively and the majority of the posts seems to be talking about locales and keyboard layouts, but I can't seem to find anything wrong with my ones (of course I only have two eyes, so your input is appreciated). The classic is the super + space trying to run the program launcher, in my case rofi which does nothing (running rofi -show drun from terminal directly works correctly). Here is the output of the localectl status command, but of course I will provide output for any you request:

$ localectl status
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: uk
   X11 Layout: gb

My .xinitrc contains the following lines:

...
localectl set-x11-keymap gb
systemctl --user import-environment DISPLAY
...

I start bspwm from my .xinitrc, and sxhkd from bspwmrc using the following line:

pgrep -x sxhkd > /dev/null || sxhkd &amp;

Any ideas on what I can do? Any commands you need me to run? As I said in the title, I'm at my wit's end.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT (ADDED CONFIG FILE LINK): https://pastebin.com/uknPbrjj

Edit2: came back to say after a system update it just works normally

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do all the default ones work? If so, it might be an error on the new ones. Post some of them so we can give you a hand

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The defaults do seem to work (i.e. moving around windows to desktops, switching focus between windows, restarting bspwm, etc...). I did make a new shortcut - super + v - which brings up copyq for my clipboard history and that works. But my no shortcut works to bring up rofi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the defaults work, could it be perhaps configuration issue? What does your sxhkdrc look like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I edited my OP with a link to a paste of my entire config, where I have marked with comments what are my changes. Its basically the original example with 2 or 3 changes made.