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yair

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XKB trying to set a persistence keyboard toggle between two languages

trying to set a persistence keyboard toggle between english and hebrew.
i started by following the wiki and probing my system,

➜  ~  setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us,ru
variant:    ,
options:    grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete+ledscroll(group_lock)
symbols:    pc+us+ru:2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete+ledscroll(group_lock)"        };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+ru:2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)"      };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"     };

apparently somewhere along the way my system got a dual lang setup between english and russian.

when i run following in shell

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us,il -option grp:alt_shift_toggle

i do get the change i need, but
1. where to set it to be persistante?
i put it at the end of my .zshrc (i use oh-my-zsh), and if i re-login to xorg i still have to open a terminal for it to "kick in"

2. and where is the us,ru thing set?

my .xinitrc

  GNU nano 2.4.2                         File: .xinitrc                                                         

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

exec i3

Last edited by yair (2015-09-18 14:16:13)