[please help] kanata starts but mostly doesnt remap consistently

[skrshe]

I'm hesitant to report an Issue as I don't have anything concrete apart from kanata not working.

I'm on linux (Ubuntu 20.04), on an 8gb ram i5 hp probook x360.
I've added my user to input and uinput
and I've set up the systemd user service with modprobe uinput

I'm not getting any errors in kanata output.

but I haven't gotten kanata to work outside of a strange second
where 3+ instances where running at once (I felt ecstatic, then was soul crushed when I closed an instance of kanata and it stopped working TT)

Im using a dvorak styled home row mod layout I got from (Dreams of Code)

but have also tried to use kanata for just remapping capslock in the past.

;; defsrc is still necessary
(defcfg
  process-unmapped-keys yes
)

(defsrc
  caps a o e u h t n s
)
(defvar
  tap-time 150
  hold-time 200
)

(defalias
  escctrl (tap-hold 100 100 esc lctl)
  a (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time a lmet))
  o (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time o lalt))
  e (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time e lsft))
  u (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time u lctl))
  h (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time h rctl))
  t (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time t rsft))
  n (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time n ralt))
  s (multi f24 (tap-hold $tap-time $hold-time s rmet))
)

(deflayer base
  @escctrl @a @o @e @u @h @t @n @s
)

[jtroo]

You're on Linux so need to use the original keycode in defsrc and not post-os-remapping Dvorak keys.

I.e. remap as if it were QWERTY:

a s d f j k l ;

[skrshe]

I had it as qwerty and I couldn't get it to function until my rare mishap yesterday?
When I had it running in two different instances at once, one being qwerty the other being dvorak now that I think about it.

Do I need to define multiple remaps to get it to work on my computer or something???

I'll keep trying with qwerty, thanks.

[skrshe]

separate instances with different configs didn't seem to get it to work.
think I had kanata running in the background and it just clicked on super late maybe?

seemed to be heavily laggy on startup when it worked for a second yesterday. lag might have been because of multiple instances?

[jtroo]

Unless you're playing around at the device layer such as pre-processing events differently for different devices (which can also be accomplished by something like evsieve), you should not be using multiple Kanata instances.

[skrshe]

After leaving my laptop on for a day and trying to setxkbmap us kanta started working will play arround with switching xkb layouts later

My issue is probably that I use setxkbmap dvorak instead of us.

[skrshe]

After restarting kanata.service switching with setxkbmap doesn't kick start kanata
seems to randomly kick on when left for a while in the background.