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mrb101

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 26

i3wm keyboard layout.. us/ar

I have an i3wm on my archlinux on a MacBook Pro dual-boot with OS X.
I use 2 languages to type. US English and Arabic. I use setxkbmap [us/ar] to switch between layouts and its easy to create a shortcut in the i3/conf and i bind $mod+u for US english and $mod+i for arabic. only problem is when i switch to arabic i can't switch back to US due to the fact that all characters changes and i3 can't recognize the arabic letters to use it in its config file to switch back to english.
anyone knows of a workaround for this. and would that be a bug or just a normal behavior?
thanks

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: i3wm keyboard layout.. us/ar

You could try using keycodes instead:
http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#keybindings

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mrb101

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 26

Re: i3wm keyboard layout.. us/ar

Ill give that a try.. Thanks