Incorrect kb_variant exposed through IPC

[ARKye03]

Hyprland event activelayout is returning incorrect values?

Related config:

input {
    kb_layout = us,us
    kb_variant = ,intl 
    ...

This should add two kb_layouts to cycle through.
I switch layouts using:
$ hyprctl switchxkblayout at-translated-set-2-keyboard next

I use this "script", a migration of the bash one in the wiki, to check values directly from the IPC:

 def handle [line: string] {
  if ($line | str starts-with "activelayout>>") {
    let parts = ($line | str replace "activelayout>>" "" | split row ",")
    let keyboard = ($parts | get 0)
    let layout = ($parts | get 1)
    print $"Keyboard: ($keyboard), Layout: ($layout)"
  }
}

socat -U - $"UNIX-CONNECT:($env.XDG_RUNTIME_DIR)/hypr/($env.HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE)/.socket2.sock" | lines | each { |line| handle $line }

This is what they return when I switch between layouts (I formatted the result with the script to make it prettier):

Keyboard: at-translated-set-2-keyboard, Layout: English (US)
Keyboard: at-translated-set-2-keyboard, Layout: English (US

The first one is us, and the second one is us-intl. The difference is that us-intl has one less paren at the end, just that, and it doesn't give information that it is the international variant.

My use case is that I visualise them using a Gtk app, which shouldn't be relevant here; in that scenario, the result is the same.

$ hyprctl systeminfo:

Hyprland 0.51.1 built from branch  at commit 71a1216abcc7031776630a6d88f105605c4dc1c9  ([gha] Nix: update inputs).
Date: Mon Sep 22 20:54:03 2025
Tag: v0.51.1, commits: 6436
built against:
 aquamarine 0.9.5
 hyprlang 0.6.3
 hyprutils 0.10.0
 hyprcursor 0.1.13
 hyprgraphics 0.2.0


no flags were set


System Information:
System name: Linux
Node name: arcxelinux
Release: 6.17.4-arch2-1
Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:21:18 +0000


GPU information: 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:9a49] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


os-release: NAME="Arch Linux"
PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux"
ID=arch
BUILD_ID=rolling
ANSI_COLOR="38;2;23;147;209"
HOME_URL="https://archlinux.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.archlinux.org/groups/archlinux/-/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/privacy-policy/"
LOGO=archlinux-logo


plugins:

Explicit sync: supported
GL ver: 3.2
Backend: drm

Monitor info:
	Panel eDP-1: 1920x1080, eDP-1 BOE 0x097D  -> backend drm
		explicit ✔️
		edid:
			hdr ❌
			chroma ✔️
			bt2020 ❌
		vrr capable ❌
		non-desktop ❌

• I'm making this discussion as I find this valid for a bug case, and if it doesn't, it looks strange and unexpected.
• I have no idea if this wasn't like this before; is the first time I have used it.
• Highlight that the switch itself does work, the layouts do change, is just the "string" exposed.