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| talk:howtos:window_managers:keyboard_layout_in_i3 [2012/09/25 04:27 (UTC)] – moved from the general howtos namespace mfillpot | talk:howtos:window_managers:keyboard_layout_in_i3 [2014/04/26 12:07 (UTC)] (current) – sycamorex | ||
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| + | setxkbmap already has many ways for changing layouts (man | ||
| + | xkeyboard-config and look at the change layout section) | ||
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| + | setxkbmap -layout de,gb | ||
| + | setxkbmap -option ' | ||
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| + | is particularly useful when you only have two layouts you want to toggle with ctrl-alt | ||
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| + | However with this setup setxkbmap will not give the " | ||
| + | The only way I could find to do that was to use xkblayout-state | ||
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| + | The new i3script.sh is: (for i3bar output) | ||
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| + | #!/bin/bash | ||
| + | i3status --config ~/ | ||
| + | do | ||
| + | read line | ||
| + | LG=$(xkblayout-state print %s) | ||
| + | dat=" [{\" | ||
| + | echo " | ||
| + | done | ||
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| + | NOTE: the original script that uses #!/bin/sh fails on some systems | ||
| + | where the default shell is not bash | ||
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| + | Thank you for your comments/ | ||
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| + | I had thought xkblayout-state was part of of stock Slackware. I'd rather keep everything with stock Slackware packages or packages avaiable through SB.org. I've just made a small change to shorten setxkbmap command as well as additional ways of changing layouts. --- // | ||
