Hello,

I can't reproduce this, even with a full reboot, and to be honest I doubt that sway would require an xorg dependency to manage input...

I think this is working via libxkbcommon or maybe xkeyboard-config, i.e. the dependency path is: sway -> wlroots -> libxkbcommon -> xkeyboard-config.

Could you please double-check, maybe something else is at play with the issue you are facing?

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I uninstalled xorg-xkbcomp, reloaded sway, and got a bunch of these non-fatal errors:

Dec 28 17:40:09 victory sway[81146]: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
Dec 28 17:40:09 victory sway[81147]: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
Dec 28 17:40:09 victory sway[81148]: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
Dec 28 17:40:09 victory sway[81149]: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
Dec 28 17:40:09 victory sway[81150]: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/xkbcomp: No such file or directory

My config is here: https://gitlab.com/WhyNotHugo/dotfiles/-/blob/38be8b0e/home/.config/sway/config
I'm not 100% certain _which_ feature requires it, but it's likely related to this:

# Keyboard settings
input * {
xkb_layout us
xkb_variant intl
xkb_numlock enable
}
# (1) Swap LeftAlt and Super keys: they're physically in the wrong order.
# (2) Maps CapsLock to Esc: CapsLock is completely useless, Esc is really useful!.
# (3) Make RightControl compose: A bit tricky sometimes, but I need a compose key SOMEWHERE.
input 1:1:AT_Translated_Set_2_keyboard xkb_options altwin:swap_lalt_lwin,caps:escape,compose:rctrl

Judging by the log, it seems that sway executes a shell script, which in turn on line 1 tries to execute /usr/bin/xkbcomp.

It doesn't seem like sway is executing any shell scripts that call xkbcomp: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/search?q=xkbcomp

Is it possible that it is your custom script and not sway that is doing that? :)

I figured out what breaks without xorg-xkbcomp: xwayland does not start.

It seems that sway fails to start xwayland if xorg-xkbcomp is not installed.

Hi, hobarrera!

Taking a look at the dependency list shows that xorg-xkbcomp is a dependency of xorg-server-common, which is itself a dependency of xorg-xwayland. I'm wondering if you didn't have xorg-xwayland installed.

The dependency tree does look sane now that you mention it.

It seems I must've messed up at some point and removed `xorg-xkbcomp` even though `xorg-xwayland` depended on it.

In any case, looks like this ticket is a non-issue. Apologies for the noise here.

Hey, no problem!