Switch keyboard layout by clicking the xmobar indicator

Left-click cycles it -> us -> sk(qwerty), right-click cycles backwards, via a new kbd_cycle.sh that calls setxkbmap like the M-i/M-u/M-s keys.
2026-10-30 21:25:57 +01:00
parent a41afe4983
commit cc8eaebd5f
3 changed files with 26 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Cycle keyboard layout it -> us -> sk(qwerty); "prev" cycles backwards.
+
+current=$(setxkbmap -query | awk '/^layout:/ {split($2, a, ","); print a[1]}')
+
+if [[ "$1" == "prev" ]]; then
+    case "$current" in
+        it) next=sk ;;
+        us) next=it ;;
+        *) next=us ;;
+    esac
+else
+    case "$current" in
+        it) next=us ;;
+        us) next=sk ;;
+        *) next=it ;;
+    esac
+fi
+
+if [[ "$next" == "sk" ]]; then
+    setxkbmap -layout sk -variant qwerty
+else
+    setxkbmap -layout "$next" -variant ""
+fi