[ Closed ] keyboard layout

thanks,

yes, somehow. i'd like to know how to have the US keyboard at bootup (not only inside openbox), but anyhow, it's great now. thanks!

setxkbmap is part of the solution you're looking for, marc. All you need to do is assign the keyboard layout to a unique key combination in in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml

For example, I'd like to switch between a US and a French Canadian keyboard. I've decided to assign Windows Key + F11 for French and Windows Key + F12 for US English. For this to work, I need to edit Openbox's rc.xml file and add this in the <keyboard> section:

<keybind key="W-F11">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>false</enabled>
          <name>French Keyboard</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command>setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout ca</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="W-F12">
      <action name="Execute">
        <startupnotify>
          <enabled>false</enabled>
          <name>English Keyboard</name>
        </startupnotify>
        <command>setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Save. Restart Openbox to effectuate your changes.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by AlexelA (2009-01-10 01:36:54)

Thanks AlexelA and Marc

I just moved to crunchbang, and I really like it,
One of the things I need was the possibility to switch between keyboard layouts, and this post was perfect.

Do you know also if there is a way of having a layout indicator in the panel or in conky?
One more question…. would it be possible to set the openbox.rc so to have a key combination that cycles through all the different layouts instead of having lets’ say F10 to Russian, F11 to Italian and F12 to German?

Thanks

M

Add this to your autostart.sh file (I dont know if I got the correct abbreviation for hebrew):

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il &

Next time Openbox is started, you can just press both shift keys to switch layouts.

I would add fbxkb, the same beautiful way it's done in liveCD:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il &
(sleep 10s && fbxkb) &

This way, you can also push the icon to change layout.

Useful expecially if you have more than 2 layouts, and you mapped Fkeys to something else.

My 2 Cents

m.

Hi,

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll se,uk &

First question on the forum, I hope this is the right place. Is there a way to change from swedish/uk to swedish/colemak? I feel much more comfortable using colemak and my girlfriend can't touch type.

Thanks.

Ah that's much better, the learning process carries on, I followed the link and with minor tweaks it all worked out. Thank you very much anonymous.

Just in case somebody requires (like myself) a setup of three keyboard layouts in crunchbang linux (openbox), including a Russian phonetic keyboard layout, US and Slovakian, here is my contribution how to set it up editing autostart.sh:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,sk,ru -variant ,bksl,phonetic &

and you will have a Alt+Shift change between US, slovak and russian phonetic layouts.

Hi Guys! setxkbmap is efficient enough. but for the few dummies like me, I would recommend simply installing the kkbswitch package along with the required dependencies. It is part of kde 3.5. You get an icon in systray along with options to easy configure in gui layout switching using keyboard as well. Hope I am not repeating somebody else...

cheers

I can write all way down to terminal in cyrillic . The dependencies were 5, kdeinit one of them, as far as I can remember. Memory footprint is around 10 Mb for kkbswitch and 7 for kdeinit. If someone can show me a less resource-hungry solution, I will go with it. Been looking for something similar(with gui i mean) and working in openbox-xfce, no luck. I like the cleanliness and versatility of crunchbang so much, I came back from Open Suse - KDE and the difference is huge.

Wouldn't fbxkb work 4revceto?

-edit- my bad...fbxkb only displays the current layout as far as I can see...

Last edited by chaanakya (2011-06-08 15:51:47)