Strange. I do only have one physical keyboard attached. I'm assuming there
is something to do with the wskbd stuff though and however that works. I
assume I can find that info in a man page somewhere?

Courtney

On 1/17/24 12:33, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:12:53AM -0800, Courtney wrote:
>> I'm not sure how exactly to report on this one. I installed sway and other
>> related wayland and sway packages. I stopped xenodm, used the default
>> configuration file and started sway with /usr/local/bin/startsway.sh and
>> found my keyboard layout was shifted up 2 rows, and jumbled up a huge
>> amount. For example, 1,2,3,4 became a,s,d,f and y became enter and
>> k became backspace. It is incredibly awkward to type to find out any info
>> on why this is happening since no key is as it would seem. I have to hard
>> reset my desktop to get out of sway, but I am baffled by this behavior.
>> Any advice on how to dig deeper?
>>
> Hi,
>
> this is a known issue with the current version of
> libinput-openbsd. When you have multiple keyboards of different types
> (pckbd aka PS/2 and USB for instance) attached.
>
> Each type has its own keycodes set, translated to evdev-like events in
> libinput. The current code can only handle one keyboard at a time and
> thus it's the last one attaching to the wskbd mux which "wins". Other
> keyboards are translated incorrectly.
>
> This is going to be fixed at some point. In the mean time, try to make
> sure you have only one keyboard attached to the mux.
>