Switch keyboard layouts with i3
You can do it with xkblayout-state
and i3blocks
For xkblayout-state
:
I assume you have git
.
~$ git clone https://github.com/nonpop/xkblayout-state.git
~$ cd xkblayout-state
~$ make
Now copy compiled xkblayout-state
somewhere in your PATH
, for example:
~$ `cp xkblayout-state /usr/local/bin/`
Now for i3blocks
:
sudo apt-get install i3blocks
cp /etc/i3blocks.conf ~/.i3blocks.conf
In your i3
config file (~/.config/i3/config) replace i3status
with i3blocks
,
# Start i3bar to display a workspace bar (plus the system information i3status
# finds out, if available)
bar {
status_command i3blocks
tray_output primary
}
# in case of layout change event - send signal to i3blocks
bindsym ISO_Next_Group exec pkill -RTMIN+1 i3blocks
And restart i3wm
(mod+shift+R), you should now see that i3blocks
appeared.
Open your ~/.i3blocks.conf
and add somewhere (for example, right above [VOLUME] section):
#Language indicator
[language]
#label=LNG
command=xkblayout-state print %s | awk '{print toupper($0)}'
interval=once
signal=1
Again, restart i3wm (mod+shift+R), and you should see your locales in status bar, switching.
Check out xkblayout-state --help
, there is many options for different output.