From 13b6447cbbed28bd85a3fd34e40cbcceb077ae20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Minka <martin.minka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:17:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add example how to manage multiple keyboard layouts under i3

---
 .config/i3/config                     | 2 ++
 .config/i3/i3blocks.conf              | 5 +++++
 .config/i3/scripts/keyboard-switch.sh | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 .config/i3/scripts/keyboard-switch.sh

diff --git a/.config/i3/config b/.config/i3/config
index 4adbf31..2594da3 100644
--- a/.config/i3/config
+++ b/.config/i3/config
@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ exec --no-startup-id dex -a -s /etc/xdg/autostart/:~/.config/autostart/
 
 # num lock activated
 #exec --no-startup-id numlockx on
+# configure multiple keyboard layouts and hotkey to switch (Alt+CAPSLOCK in this example)
+#exec --no-startup-id setxkbmap -layout 'us,sk' -variant altgr-intl,qwerty -option 'grp:alt_caps_toggle'
 
 # start conky: 
 #exec_always --no-startup-id conky
diff --git a/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf b/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf
index 5aa8710..bf39a4e 100644
--- a/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf
+++ b/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ interval=1
 full_text=
 command=~/.config/i3/scripts/keyhint.sh
 
+# display keyboard layout name
+#[keyboard-layout]
+#command=~/.config/i3/scripts/keyboard-layout.sh
+#interval=2
+
 [time]
 #label= 
 command=date '+%a %d %b %H:%M:%S'
diff --git a/.config/i3/scripts/keyboard-switch.sh b/.config/i3/scripts/keyboard-switch.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9a3e314
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/i3/scripts/keyboard-switch.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+KBD=$(/usr/bin/xkblayout-state print '%s')
+echo $KBD
+