Issue with switching back to Norwegian keyboard layout in 'Chats' if switching to the Terminal or Emoji layout.

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Duplicate of #202

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Ah wait, I misread - it actually seems different!

moved from phosh#541 (moved)

My trying to explain the issue is likely a messy read. Sorry. :)

However, I did a bit more fiddling around with my phone. So maybe this comment clarifies:

My phone's currently using squeekboard 1.12.0+22+g3cdced0-1
I can switch back and forth between NO and US keyboard layouts without this issue occuring
I can switch back and forth between US , Terminal and Emoji keyboard layouts seemingly fine.

It seems that this issue only occurs if i switch from my default set NO layout to either Terminal or Emoji layout. At which point I can not switch back to NO layout.

(I can however switch then from Emoji or Terminal layout, to US layout, and then from US back to the NO layout again)

Running localectl currently gives me:

   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
                  LC_NUMERIC=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_TIME=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_MONETARY=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_PAPER=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_MEASUREMENT=nb_NO.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: no
      X11 Layout: no,us
     X11 Variant: ,

Could you post the output of:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources

[('xkb', 'no'), ('xkb', 'us')]

[('xkb', 'us')]

Hm, still nothing on my side.

But I'm not seeing this:

the bullet menu selection indication will remain at either Terminal or Emoji layout .

Do you have access to logs? I think they are under:

journalctl --user -u phosh

EDIT: a video could be nice. Maybe it's a problem in the menu somehow, that it thinks something else was clicked.

journalctl --user -u phosh returns

No journal files were found.
-- No entries --

By my

the bullet menu selection indication will remain at either Terminal or Emoji layout .

I meant it's not simply erroneously indicating I've gone back to NO layout again, when i click on Norwegian in the bullet list; Which is to be expected since it doesn't switch to it. :)

EDIT: a video could be nice. Maybe it's a problem in the menu somehow, that it thinks something else was clicked.

Unfortunately I am not quite sure of how to provide video since I do not have another camera. But I can try perhaps screen recording with ffmpeg or try to find some other software that does such.

Or, if i can find some way to VNC to the phone from my computer, it could be done that way.

Though, I'm completely unfamiliar with Wayland in every way.

Recording your interaction with a camera is fine for this purpose.

I just noticed from my https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/issues/pinephone/phosh/-/issues/168#note_21056

That localectl was then giving me this:

   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
                  LC_NUMERIC=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_TIME=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_MONETARY=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_PAPER=nb_NO.UTF-8
                  LC_MEASUREMENT=nb_NO.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: n/a

noting the VC Keymap: n/a and X11 Layout: n/a , instead of desired no

And that was prior to me adding US layout alongside NO layout as a test, and having just NO layout enabled.

@sebastian.krzyszkowiak It might be that it's the same issue I'm having as that described in #202 after all.

I do not know how the terminal app switches, since i've been using SSH into the phone.

Unfortunately I'm unsure of how to go about providing a more useful info atm. I think I'll leave it until confirmed or reproduced by someone else.

Does this happen while any other application is active?

Yeah, the same issue seems to be present with using the keyboard in e.g gedit text editor, and switching layouts there; As well as in e.g firefox address bar. So i'd expect it'd happen in all other text input.

That eliminates #202... I'm going to come up with a way to get debug output.

@dorota.czaplejewicz Also, let me know if there's a way you can think of that i could VNC or 'remote desktop' to the phone , then i could easily record video of the phone on my PC.

I briefly tried installing wayvnc on the phone, but at least by using Remmina client, it would apparently not connect even though ẁayvnc seemed to be running ok as far as netstat on the phone showed.

You can record a screencast on the phone using wf-recorder

@sebastian.krzyszkowiak @dorota.czaplejewicz

manjaro_pinephone_telefon

~ 0:22s probably shows it occuring the most clear

Huh, so the button actually highlights. That is a pickle. Are you able to test out MRs that I would come up with?

I'm not sure what MRs are, but probably.

(As long as it's not RMI scanning you mean )

I mean merge requests, like this one: !443 (merged)

If you dig into the "pipeline", you will eventually find that most produce .deb files as artifacts. I'm not sure if Manjaro does that, but if not, then it's about recompiling from the git branch the merge request is attached to.

So, I git clone that, and checkout 225e53df, then build that checkout on the phone?

I have not advanced experience in git (nor Rust for that matter), but i could try. Though feel free to hit me with a command list that does it. I bought the phone not only to de-google a bit, but for fun and learning as with the openmoko phone back in the day :D

If you try doing it on the phone, enable a swap file.

Otherwise, you could try https://source.puri.sm/sebastian.krzyszkowiak/l5d - I use something similar for building ARM versions on my laptop.

EDIT: actually l5d seems to be slightly different… we'd need to emulate the Manjaro build environment to get something relevant, but I don't know how to do that.

You could try downloading one of the .debs and extracting the /usr/bin/squeekboard file. It's not certain that would work, but it's the easiest.

Oh BTW, make sure you can fix it if the keyboard stops working entirely :P

Build instructions: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/blob/master/README.md#building

For getting logs, this is the procedure I use:

Log in via ssh
sudo vim /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/phosh.session
Remove sm.puri.OSK0;
sudo systemctl restart phosh
/usr/bin/squeekboard

This can all be done from the remote computer and the logs will flow.

To restore, you need to add the deleted text again.

Okay, I downloaded the squeekboard package from https://manjaro.lucassymons.net/arm-testing/community/aarch64/squeekboard-1.12.0%2B22%2Bg3cdced0-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst and started it on my L5. I can switch between the layouts without any trouble.

With that I seem to lose virtual keyboard input entirely. (e.g the keyboard icon in the lower right corner becomes greyed out)

Did you remember to run /usr/bin/squeekboard after all is done? If yes, could you attach the console output?

[manjaro@manjaro-arm ~]$ /usr/bin/squeekboard gives

Debug: Tried file "/home/manjaro/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/no.yaml", but it's missing: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Info: Loaded layout Resource: no
Debug: Tried file "/home/manjaro/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/no.yaml", but it's missing: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Info: Loaded layout Resource: no
Debug: Tried file "/home/manjaro/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/gb.yaml", but it's missing: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Warning: Failed to load layout from Resource: gb: Missing resource, skipping
Debug: Tried file "/home/manjaro/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/us.yaml", but it's missing: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Info: Loaded layout Resource: us
Debug: Tried file "/home/manjaro/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/no.yaml", but it's missing: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Info: Loaded layout Resource: no
Debug: Tried file "/home/manjaro/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/emoji.yaml", but it's missing: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Info: Loaded layout Resource: emoji
Debug: Tried file "/home/manjaro/.local/share/squeekboard/keyboards/terminal.yaml", but it's missing: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Info: Loaded layout Resource: terminal

Seems I'm still unable to switch back from terminal or emoji layout with squeekboard-1.12.0+22+g3cdced0-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst . And it does not output anyhing it seems, when i lastly tried to switch back to NO from Terminal . The exact same issue occurs.

And squeekboard no longer seem then to autorun after a reboot. At least it's not popping up at text input fields, nor by using the tiny keyboard icon in corner.

(Note That i i'd earlier changed US keyboard for GB keyboard just to see if that would behave the same. Which it did.)

@dorota.czaplejewicz

I can switch between the layouts without any trouble.

I am then thinking that until the issue can be confirmed or reproduced by someone else but me, I will leave it as is for the time being and await a future fix.

I can confirm the exact same issue with the same workaround with the German keyboard layout. I too am using Manjaro ARM, squeekboard version is 1.12.0+53+gacac00bc-1. Also using the terminal doesn't invoke the terminal layout automatically anymore.

Also using the terminal doesn't invoke the terminal layout automatically anymore.

This is an issue of the terminal, should be reported there.

I don't really know what to do with this one, as I don't have a spare PinePhone to run Manjaro on :P

Best I can ask is to go through the procedure I described, and add an extra level of logs by running it this way:

WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 /usr/bin/squeekboard

Best if the resulting logs are documented: "I clicked this, I clicked that 1 time, then I clicked this again 2 times".

I checked the commit logs and found out that e49de34d creates a new layout, which hinders to invoke the terminal layout automatically ...

Is this related to this isssue?

Here are the logs from doing the following inside chatty:

Start squeekboard with WAYLAND_DEBUG=1. Keyboard appears with German layout (my default).
Select terminal layout, keyboard switches to terminal layout.
Select German layout, keyboard stays on terminal layout.
Select English (US) layout, keyboard switches to English (US) layout.
Select German layout, keyboard switches to German layout.

I hope that helps!

squeekboard_log.txt

I can reproduce this bug without any alternative language keyboards added:

Open squeekboard anywhere
Change to emoji keyboard
Can now only set the emoji or terminal keyboard as the active keyboard. Pressing on English (US) does nothing.

pmOS edge with Phosh DE on a librem 5 evergreen, for what it's worth.

I'm attaching a screen recording. You can't see the tap events, but I do in fact tap the top option which closes the keyboard picker pop-up. recording

What OS are you using? What version of phoc and Squeekboard?

Oh, sorry, you wrote PmOS. But please provide package versions.

Sure!

squeekboard-1.11.1-r0
phoc-0.7.0-r0
phosh-0.10.0-r0

The current squeekboard acac00bc can be downloaded from here. However I noticed that CTRL ALT up down left right are somehow now missing ...

Please file a separate issue for that next time.

EDIT: I'm not seeing that, so if you think that's a bug, please file an issue with the details of your setup (OS, version, input language).

Here you go:

e49de34d introduces the regression that the terminal layout is not detected by default when open kgx is used as terminal. As the issue with selecting between layouts exists also with earlier versions of squeekboard it might not be so relevant for this issue.
I can reproduce #276 (comment 150819) on the latest pinephone dev-image of Manjaro. If needed, a complete pkg-list is attached per release.
@samuelnorbury2 is using PMOS Edge, which you can try out

I may try more languages to see if only the one layout above emojis is affected ...

Please use this form https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/-/issues/new to file issues.

I copied your report here: #277 (closed)

mentioned in issue #277 (closed)

To all seeing this issue: did it ever work correctly? Could you try downgrading Squeekboard to the version that worked before?

Based on @samuelnorbury2 's report, old Squeekboard from November is affected, but no one had reported any issues in the past 3 months, suggesting a different culprit.

EDIT: Phosh 0.9.0 was released at about the same time. Try dowgrading phosh?

I remember it working a couple of weeks ago when changing to the terminal layout in Firefox to use some keyboard shortcuts. I will try older versions when I have the time.

Could someone post the results of this command:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources

EDIT: never mind, I got it.

mentioned in merge request !450 (merged)

Please check if this fixes the problem: !450 (merged)

If you want an easy time building Squeekboard for PMOS, I made something just for you: https://source.puri.sm/dorota.czaplejewicz/boold

Anyone? I'm not going to merge that unless it's confirmed that it fixes the problem.

It is fixed according to our downstream issue. Seems @nwlyoc and @DuckHP didn't update here.

The downstream issue mentions commit acac00bc, which is current master, but it doesn't say anything about !450 (merged) (that's commit 4fdce280). So it seems it hasn't actually been tested :(

If I say it is fixed and tested it is so. See here: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/community/phosh/squeekboard

It's going to be much easier if you report merge requests as tested and working here in the issue tracker next time. Upstreams don't typically trawl distributions for changes and try to match patches to MRs. The exception for us is PureOS.

If you prefer maintaining patches on your own, then you need not report anything, of course.

@philm @dorota.czaplejewicz It does indeed seem to be fixed.

Using squeekboard 1.12.0+53+gacac00b-3 , and I am now able to switch between and back-and-forth between layouts, with no problems. I also just now tested removing the US layout I prev. used for as a workaround; And now having just the NO, Emoji and Terminal layout , as desired.

Switching layouts seems to work fine and as expected in e.g:

chatty/sms editing
gedit text editor
firefox address bar and firefox text input fields
kings cross terminal emu. input.

There seems to be no issue of this kind any longer present, as far as i'm concerned and able to tell of.

Prosjekt_uten_navn

Thanks! Skål!

Appending the packagelist from 'pacman -Q > packagelist.txt' of what i've got currently installed on my pinephone (minus wf-recorder which i installed to make the attached video recording shortly after) , just in case it might somehow be useful info in future: packagelist.txt

mentioned in commit c23b6f5f

closed with merge request !450 (merged)

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