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Est

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Registered: 2015-08-16

Posts: 28

Keyboard layout change indicator-notification

Hello forum,

WM - Openbox
Panel - Lemonbar

I have (and often change) 3 keyboard layouts. I would like to see a notification on my screen when layout is changed, e.g. "Switched to English/US". I tried to do it via notify-send, but I failed.

Openbox autostart file:

#keyboard
setxkbmap -layout us,ru,ge -variant -option grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp &

layout.sh

#!/bin/bash

lang=$(setxkbmap -query | grep layout | sed 's/layout.* //g')

if [[ $lang == "ru" ]]
then
    setxkbmap us
    notify-send 'Current Keyboard Layout:' 'US (English)'
elif [[ $lang == "us" ]]
then
    setxkbmap ru
    notify-send 'Current Keyboard Layout:' 'RU (Russian)'
elif [[ $lang == "ge" ]]
then
    setxkbmap us
    notify-send 'Current Keyboard Layout:' 'GE (Geprgian)'

Thank you.

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 4,092

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Re: Keyboard layout change indicator-notification

but I failed.

What do "I failed" mean? What is the issue?

When is the "layout.sh" file used?

Est

Member

Registered: 2015-08-16

Posts: 28

Re: Keyboard layout change indicator-notification

but I failed.

What do "I failed" mean? What is the issue?

When is the "layout.sh" file used?

When I'm switching keyboard (Alt + Shift).