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farghal

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From: Cairo, Egypt

Registered: 2008-04-25

Posts: 22

Changing keyboard layout in Openbox

Hello everybody.. I'm trying out Openbox on my box. It's my first time with a WM only and not a full DE.

I have looked everywhere (Google, Arch Wiki, Openbox Wiki) for a way to be able to change my keyboard layout in openbox from en-US to ar-EG and vice versa using Alt+Shift. The thing is, I always set xorg.conf as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel"   "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout"  "us,ara"
    Option         "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

.. and this is obeyed by all DEs (KDEmod, Gnome, Xfce4) except Openbox! Does Openbox not support Keyboard Layouts? Or does it have another way of doing it?

_Marco_

Member

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: Changing keyboard layout in Openbox

hi, I'm using openbox as a standalone WM and I have in xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

and it works... try leaving only 'ara' or 'us'