[SOLVED] English letters is typed instead of Russian on chromium

UniverAlex · 2025-06-25 13:08:20

Greetings Arch Linux masters.
Few days ago I installed Arch Linux with Hyprland. All went alright except English letters is typed instead of Russian on chromium and electron apps like obsidian.
I roamed internet and specifically this forum but did not find an answer.

I configured layout change in ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf like this:

input {
    kb_layout = us,ru
    kb_variant =
    kb_model =
    kb_options =grp:switch
    kb_rules =

    follow_mouse = 1

    sensitivity = 0 # -1.0 - 1.0, 0 means no modification.

    touchpad {
        natural_scroll = false
    }
}

In other apps for example kitty terminal layout change working as expected but in chromium when I trying to type cyrillic letter (russian layout) I see latin (english layout) instead. Language indicator in waybar changes to Russian like usual.

Thank you for your time and care.

Last edited by UniverAlex (2025-06-26 05:48:10)

UniverAlex · 2025-06-25 13:34:07

Also after experiencing this issue I set ozone-platform-hint flag in chromium to x11 and explicitly configure layout in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:switch"
EndSection

Now I can change layout even in sddm display manager but still not in chromium.

seth · 2025-06-25 13:53:46

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waylan … plications ?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromi … er_Wayland (ignore the symptoms)

Alternatively/additionally, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromi … nd_support - do you use an IME?

UniverAlex · 2025-06-25 14:56:17

Thank you for fast replay. It is my first post but you, V1del, and user with parrot avatar are forum legends for me

I read links that you are suggested and running chromium with -chrome://flags/ "#ozone-platform-hint=wayland" is helped.

Last edited by UniverAlex (2025-06-25 14:57:26)

seth · 2025-06-25 15:12:48

you, V1del, and user with parrot avataryou, V1del, and user with parrot avatar

That's "Inspector Parrot" for noobs

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

UniverAlex · 2025-06-26 05:54:36

My fault, just got up from bed with realization that I forgot to mark as [SOLVED]
If someone will stuck with similar problem with obsidian try to open it with this arguments:

obsidian --no-sandbox --ozone-platform=wayland --ozone-platform-hint=auto --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations %U

If it works for you than add this arguments into obsidian.desktop file. For me it was located in:

./usr/share/applications/obsidian.desktop

seth · 2025-06-26 06:16:23

This btw. suggests that the X11 keyboard layout isn't properly setup on xwayland - I supposed the "Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"" order matters and the switch doesn't get applied/carried on.
"setxkbmap ru" might fix it for other xwayland clients.

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#1 2025-06-25 13:08:20

[SOLVED] English letters is typed instead of Russian on chromium

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Re: [SOLVED] English letters is typed instead of Russian on chromium

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