luminousmen / xkblang

Simple program for getting and setting current keyboard layout of the system using X11

Xkblang

Xkblang is a simple program for getting current keyboard layout. Primarily this program was written for i3blocks blocklet for getting current layout.

Installation

Xkblang written on pure C. The only dependency is libX11.

$ make
$ sudo make install

OR with deb packet:

$ dpkg -i xkblang_1.0-1.deb

Usage

$ xkblang -p
English (US)

For short version:

$ xkblang -ps
En

To list all available layouts:

$ xkblang -l
0. English (US)
1. Russian

To set layout:

$ xkblang -t 0

xkblang's Issues

[feature request] Add formatting option

It would be nice to have formatting options, something like this (from xkblayout-state help):

  %c -> current layout number
  %n -> current layout name
  %s -> current layout symbol
  %v -> current layout variant
  %e -> current layout variant (equals to %s if %v is empty)
  %C -> layout count
  %N -> layout names (one per line)
  %S -> layout symbols (one per line)
  %V -> layout variants (one per line)
  %E -> layout variants (one per line; layout symbol is used if variant is empty)
  %% -> A literal '%'

Usage:

$ xkblang
English (US)

$ xkblang 'layout: %n [%s]'
layout: English [us]

$ xkblang '%s\n%s\n#FFFFFF'
us
us
#FFFFFF

The latter example can be used as blocklet without any external wrapper — just add this string as command block property to your i3blocks config.