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custo

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Registered: 2013-11-23

Posts: 64

[Openbox] Manage keyboard layouts like in Gnome

Hey, I switched from gnome-shell to Openbox because I want to make my system more lightweight. However, I still want to have the following functionalities:

1. view current keyboard layout (as in show me the actual mapping for all keys, as opposed to just the layout name)
2. display name of current keyboard layout in system tray
3. cycle through keyboard layouts (more than two!) via shortcut
4. include the layout "Russian (Germany, phonetic)" as per Gnome language settings – I can't seem to find this specific layout elsewhere; there is an X11 keymap variant phonetic_fr but not phonetic_de for ru)

Could you point me to the right packages for each of these?

Last edited by custo (2016-09-08 12:27:13)

olliemath

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From: Lancaster, UK

Registered: 2014-12-16

Posts: 13

Re: [Openbox] Manage keyboard layouts like in Gnome

Afraid I have no idea about the specific layout you want, but if you're willing to use any panel with OB xfce panel's xkb plugin seems pretty good

You might find this useful too:
https://mynixworld.wordpress.com/2011/1 … ut-switch/