@ryo @PhenomX6 AZERTY is still basically QWERTY, so it's absolutely atrocious, and it doesn't even get the benefit of being the global default. And my keyboard has free firmware, so I just change the configuration in the firmware itself. Caps lock is useless, so I replace it with escape when pressed and ctrl when held.

I have never used a Japanese keyboard, but typing in Japanese is a major pain in the ass. I may eventually learn how to type directly in kana, because it should go considerably faster once I learn the layout (?), but I will only do that if I switch to another layout first, because again, QWERTY is retarded, so learning Japanese QWERTY would be silly when I can learn Japanese anything else, like Colemak. Though I think a big chunk of the annoyance with typing in Japanese is having to switch between Japanese and English constantly. Once I have an ergonomic keyboard, I may map a key just for that, so I don't have to use a modifier to do it.

And I have nothing against Rofi, I used it before and it's a good program and for a lot of people it may be better. But I don't really need the extra features that it has (I can do all that with scripts), so I just use dmenu patched with border, center, fuzzyhighlight, fuzzymatch, grid and gridnav. By default it's not great, though. The fuzzy matching is what really makes it good. I may end up replacing it with something better eventually, though (hell, I could just launch stuff from the terminal with an fzf script with disown and that would work well in manual tilers like stumpwm, notion, sdorfehs and ratpoison, though I could also make the terminal window be hidden). Also, Rofi has some pretty nice themes, I liked that.