geninclude generated config won't apply

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Hello,

I wanted to make a modular config file that changes the key mapping whenever I use a keyboard that has another layout on MACOS ( one is macos french layout, the other a standard french layout )

I thought using genoinclude would be a perfect match for this situation, by reading the current layout in the plist dedicated to that whenever kitty launches using a python script to choose the correct set of key mapping.

However I can't get it to work somehow and don't understand what I've done wrong, if someone knows, that would help me a lot !

Here are the lines in my kitty.conf

geninclude keyboard.py
# include keyboard_macos-base.conf
# include keyboard_macos-pc.conf

I built a small script that would read from different keymap config files and print the read file to the stdout using the print function ( as I think is suggested in the doc of Kitty for using geninclude ):

from pathlib import Path
import plistlib
import os

def get_keyboard_layout():
    """
    Reads the macOS preferences plist file to get the current keyboard layout.
    """
    plist_path = os.path.expanduser("~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist")
    with open(plist_path, "rb") as f:
        plist = plistlib.load(f)
    
    input_sources = plist.get("AppleSelectedInputSources", [])
    for source in input_sources:
        if "KeyboardLayout Name" in source:
            return source["KeyboardLayout Name"]
    
    return "Unknown"

def generate_config_text():
    """
    Determines which kitty configuration file to include based on the current
    macOS keyboard layout. Prints an include directive for kitty.conf.
    """
    layout = get_keyboard_layout()

    # Compare the layout in a normalized manner (e.g., lower-case matching)
    if layout.lower() in ("french-pc"):
        conf_file = Path("keyboard_macos-pc.conf")
    else:
        conf_file = Path("keyboard_macos-base.conf")

    # read the content of the file and print it
    with open(conf_file, 'r') as file:
        content=file.read()
        print(content)

    # does not work, need to use the file content instead ?
    # Print the include directive. In kitty.conf, you can include another file using "include <file>"
    # print(f"include {conf_file}")

generate_config_text()

which seems to run correctly whenever I run it using python

# switched to french - numerical
❯ python keyboard.py
# ~ MACOS fix special chars option → alt ~

map alt+shift+( send_text all [
map alt+shift+) send_text all ]
map alt+( send_text all {
map alt+) send_text all }
map alt+shift+: send_text all \
map alt+: send_text all \

# switched to french - pc
❯ python keyboard.py
# map alt+shift+( send_text all [
# map alt+shift+) send_text all ]
# map alt+( send_text all {
# map alt+) send_text all }
# map alt+shift+: send_text all \
# map alt+: send_text all \

map alt+( send_text all [
map alt+) send_text all ]
map alt+' send_text all {
map alt+= send_text all }
map alt+à send_text all @
map alt+- send_text all |
map alt+" send_text all #
map alt+é send_text all ~
map alt+_ send_text all \
map alt+ç send_text all ^

however when I am using the geninclude instead of manually including the file, uncommenting by hand whenever I switch layout, the map don't apply. What am I doing wrong ?

Thank you very much ! ;)

[kovidgoyal]

geninclude is a new feature, are you using up-to-date kitty?

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Hey !
I'm currently running the 0.39.1 version of Kitty on macos

I looked at the changelog, it seems like the feature should be available on this version

[kovidgoyal]

Then it should work fine. Start with something simple. Is geninclude working at all for you. Start with just

print('background red')

see if that makes your background red.

[code-instable]

Hi ! It turns out I made the rookie mistake to assume where the script was executing from, making everything as absolute path solved it.

Solution:

base_path = Path.expanduser(Path("~/.config/kitty"))
    if layout.lower() in ("french-pc"):
        conf_file = base_path/Path("keyboard_macos-pc.conf")
    else:
        conf_file = base_path/Path("keyboard_macos-base.conf")

instead of

    if layout.lower() in ("french-pc"):
        conf_file = Path("keyboard_macos-pc.conf")
    else:
        conf_file = Path("keyboard_macos-base.conf")

thank you for your time anyway ! (much appreciated)