Sway Working on 12.0?

Jan Beich jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 13 01:37:33 UTC 2019


Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> writes:

> hi there,
> i've been trying to get the sway pkg working on my 12.0-RELEASE system
> and am kind of stuck. i was wondering if anyone else has it working
> on their end. i am able to start sway, my mouse works, but i am
> unable to get keyboard input working.

If "libinput debug-events" shows keypresses try adding

  input * {
    # required for Mod4 aka Super
    xkb_rules evdev
  }

> according to the log output it looks like sway is detecting my
> keyboard device via libinput, and the fact that i have a working mouse
> is kind of confusing to me. so any pointers would be really
> appreciated!

Which keys did you try pressing? Maybe add "exec xterm -e xev" to the
config in order to debug key bindings.


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