Question about libxkbcommon and wayland

[avs-origami]

Hey, I was looking through these repos to figure out how to set up wayland (for my project, Tin Can) and noticed that you're somehow able to avoid dependency on xkeyboard-config. For me, I can't start a wayland session without this package since it provides the keyboard layout info in /usr/share/X11/xkb. I couldn't seem to figure out how you do this just looking through the packages, so I was wondering if you could explain this / point me to the relevant files.

[firasuke]

Hey, I was looking through these repos to figure out how to set up wayland (for my project, Tin Can) and noticed that you're somehow able to avoid dependency on xkeyboard-config. For me, I can't start a wayland session without this package since it provides the keyboard layout info in /usr/share/X11/xkb. I couldn't seem to figure out how you do this just looking through the packages, so I was wondering if you could explain this / point me to the relevant files.

Thanks for your interest in glaucus!

libxkbcommon supports disabling x11 support, as you can see in the build file.

[avs-origami]

Well that's what I thought too, but I have this option set and it still expects the keyboard layouts:

meson setup \
    -Dprefix=/usr \
    -Dlibexecdir=/usr/lib \
    -Denable-wayland=true \
    -Denable-x11=false \
    build

And it clearly doesn't provide these files:

.
├── usr
│   ├── bin
│   │   └── xkbcli
│   ├── include
│   │   └── xkbcommon
│   │       ├── xkbcommon-compat.h
│   │       ├── xkbcommon-compose.h
│   │       ├── xkbcommon.h
│   │       ├── xkbcommon-keysyms.h
│   │       ├── xkbcommon-names.h
│   │       └── xkbregistry.h
│   ├── lib
│   │   ├── libxkbcommon.so -> libxkbcommon.so.0
│   │   ├── libxkbcommon.so.0 -> libxkbcommon.so.0.0.0
│   │   ├── libxkbcommon.so.0.0.0
│   │   ├── libxkbregistry.so -> libxkbregistry.so.0
│   │   ├── libxkbregistry.so.0 -> libxkbregistry.so.0.0.0
│   │   ├── libxkbregistry.so.0.0.0
│   │   ├── pkgconfig
│   │   │   ├── xkbcommon.pc
│   │   │   └── xkbregistry.pc
│   │   └── xkbcommon
│   │       ├── xkbcli-compile-compose
│   │       ├── xkbcli-compile-keymap
│   │       ├── xkbcli-how-to-type
│   │       ├── xkbcli-interactive-evdev
│   │       ├── xkbcli-interactive-wayland
│   │       └── xkbcli-list
│   └── share
│       ├── bash-completion
│       │   └── completions
│       │       └── xkbcli
│       └── man
│           └── man1
│               ├── xkbcli.1
│               ├── xkbcli-compile-compose.1
│               ├── xkbcli-compile-keymap.1
│               ├── xkbcli-how-to-type.1
│               ├── xkbcli-interactive-evdev.1
│               ├── xkbcli-interactive-wayland.1
│               └── xkbcli-list.1
└── var
    └── cache
        └── arc
            └── installed
                └── libxkbcommon@1.7.0

17 directories, 30 files

Although I suppose it could be the compositor. I'm using velox (swc based) and not sway (wlroots based).

[m-hugo]

the /usr/share/X11 files of xkeyboard-config are required to use a keyboard under wayland