hyprland/language sometimes shows nothing

[coffebar]

Sometimes I need to change layout to see it in the waybar

like this:

"hyprland/language": {
    "format": "{}",
    "max-length": 18
},

I have 2 monitors and 2 keyboards. Also using hyprland-per-window-layout , not sure if it can be related.

hyprland config:

input {
  kb_layout = us,ua
  kb_variant =
  kb_model =
  kb_options = grp:alt_shift_toggle,caps:backspace
  kb_rules =
...

pls help me to debug this

[KalaayPT]

whats your log if you run waybar from terminal?
also, i had the issue where it wouldnt appear at all, and apparently it was because it couldnt connect to the ipc, giving me this:
Hyprland IPC: Couldn't connect to /tmp/hypr/70ebc3add3b941a52f460f02129ef0842f580ec7_1714744275_1686582762.socket.sock.
what i gather from this is that it was apparently looking in the wrong place from some reason, because this
ln -s $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr /tmp/hypr
completely fixed the issue. thought id put this here so this can get fixed/help others

EDIT: my IPC was active of course, because
echo $HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE
did return
70ebc3add3b941a52f460f02129ef0842f580ec7_1714744275_1686582762
which is exactly the thing it was looking for in /tmp/hypr

[coffebar]

Did find interesting:

[2024-05-06 18:51:55.642] [debug] hyprland language onevent with English (US)
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.648] [debug] hyprland language onevent with English (US)
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.649] [debug] hyprland IPC received activelayout>>wlr_virtual_keyboard_v1,English (US)
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.655] [debug] hyprland language onevent with English (US)
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.661] [debug] hyprland language onevent with English (US)
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.662] [debug] hyprland IPC received activelayout>>wlr_virtual_keyboard_v1,error
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.667] [debug] hyprland language didn't find matching layout
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.667] [debug] hyprland language onevent with error
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.675] [debug] hyprland language didn't find matching layout
[2024-05-06 18:51:55.675] [debug] hyprland language onevent with error

[zjeffer]

whats your log if you run waybar from terminal? also, i had the issue where it wouldnt appear at all, and apparently it was because it couldnt connect to the ipc, giving me this: Hyprland IPC: Couldn't connect to /tmp/hypr/70ebc3add3b941a52f460f02129ef0842f580ec7_1714744275_1686582762.socket.sock. what i gather from this is that it was apparently looking in the wrong place from some reason, because this ln -s $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr /tmp/hypr completely fixed the issue. thought id put this here so this can get fixed/help others

EDIT: my IPC was active of course, because echo $HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE did return 70ebc3add3b941a52f460f02129ef0842f580ec7_1714744275_1686582762 which is exactly the thing it was looking for in /tmp/hypr

That has been fixed in #3183, and now also in the new 0.10.3 release of Waybar. The problem was a breaking change by Hyprland.

[zjeffer]

[2024-05-06 18:51:55.662] [debug] hyprland IPC received activelayout>>wlr_virtual_keyboard_v1,error

This seems like Hyprland is sending errors to the IPC, not a problem in Waybar. I suggest you search the Hyprland issues or create a new issue there.