layout indicator in top right

.config/quickshell/modules/bar/Bar.qml

@@ -416,6 +416,13 @@ Scope {
                                             color: rightSidebarButton.colText
                                         }
                                     }
+                                    Label {
+                                        Layout.rightMargin: indicatorsRowLayout.realSpacing
+                                        text: LayoutService.currentLayout
+                                        visible: LayoutService.currentLayout !== ""
+                                        font.pixelSize: Appearance.font.pixelSize.larger - 3
+                                        color: rightSidebarButton.colText
+                                    }
                                     MaterialSymbol {
                                         Layout.rightMargin: indicatorsRowLayout.realSpacing
                                         text: Network.materialSymbol

.config/quickshell/services/LayoutService.qml

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+pragma Singleton
+
+import QtQuick
+import Quickshell.Hyprland
+
+QtObject {
+    id: layoutService
+
+    property string currentLayout: "" // This is empty on startup. We could default it to "en", but we don't know the user's configured layout order (e.g. "en,ru" vs "ru,en").
+    // I haven't found a way to query the initial layout from QML without external bash scripts, so this is the safest compromise for now.
+
+    function parseLayout(fullLayoutName) {
+        if (!fullLayoutName) return;
+
+        const shortName = fullLayoutName.substring(0, 2).toLowerCase();
+
+        if (currentLayout !== shortName) {
+            currentLayout = shortName;
+        }
+    }
+
+    function handleRawEvent(event) {
+        if (event.name === "activelayout") {
+            const dataString = event.data;
+            const layoutInfo = dataString.split(",");
+            const fullLayoutName = layoutInfo[layoutInfo.length - 1];
+
+            parseLayout(fullLayoutName);
+        }
+    }
+
+    Component.onCompleted: {
+        Hyprland.rawEvent.connect(handleRawEvent);
+    }
+}