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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

bash: getting current keymap

I'm writing a little bash script that will toggle the keymap.  I am currently using "setxkbmap -print|grep -q $KBD1" to check the current keymap. It's working fine for this case but I am wondering if there is a command that returns the current keymap.  I've read man pages for setxkbmap, xmodmap, etc but couldn't find anything.

#!/bin/bash

KBD1=us
KBD2=ca_enhanced

if setxkbmap -print|grep -q $KBD1
then
  setxkbmap $KBD2
else
  setxkbmap $KBD1
fi