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marxav

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From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-24

Posts: 386

Openbox and Switching keyboard

Is there a way to switch keyboard layout on the fly ideally using a key combination, say English to French and vice versa, with OpenBox

lman

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From: CZ

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 252

Re: Openbox and Switching keyboard

Directly from openbox it isn't possible, but there are other ways to do it. jbromley made a ruby script to switch and determine current keyboard layout. Still you have to define the layouts in xorg.conf, like this:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option    "XkbRules"  "xorg"
    Option    "XkbModel"  "pc105"
    Option    "XkbLayout" "us,fr"
    Option    "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle"
EndSection

With this you will have english and french layout and you switch between them with both shifts pressed. Not all shortcuts work, last time when I tried grp:alts_toggle didn't work.

For option details see: /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst

andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Openbox and Switching keyboard

Have you tried grp:mod1s_toggle? Maybe it uses mod1 instead of alt.

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lman

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From: CZ

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 252

Re: Openbox and Switching keyboard

Have you tried grp:mod1s_toggle? Maybe it uses mod1 instead of alt.

still no luck

marxav

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From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-24

Posts: 386

Re: Openbox and Switching keyboard

Anyone has any success?

I tried this:

    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us,fr-ca"
    Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle"

It does not work, and on top of that, all my openbox shortcut keys are broken

marxav

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From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-24

Posts: 386

Re: Openbox and Switching keyboard

Well, it is fixed for me now.

    Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca"
    Option "XkbVariant" ",fr"
    Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle"

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Openbox and Switching keyboard

I had trouble with that as well. It just wouldn't work no matter what I put in xorg.conf

So I just put something like this in ~/.xbindkeysrc

"setxkbmap us euro"
alt + shift + 1

"setxkbmap rs latinyz"
alt + shift + 2

Works so much better for me than a single switch button.

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