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Shibumi

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Registered: 2013-04-14

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trigger event when using ibus

Hello,
I have the following setup:

I have in my .xinitrc the line: setxkbmap de us

This helps me with writing german and english at the same time. But I also need to write chinese and japanese sometimes.
I do this via ibus-daemon --xim and then I press ctrl+space to switch between the languages.

My problem is now that everytime when I switch to a different language and I switch back to my normal US setup, i don't have german special chars like I have when i trigger setxkbmap de us.

Is there any way to trigger setxkbmap de us when I switch back to the US keyboard? Can I hook the ibus-daemon somehow?

I thought maybe about something like this:

ibus-daemon --xim | <monitoring process>

But even with ibus-daemon -v --xim I don't get any information when I trigger/switch between the languages.

Any other idea?