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#118 in Hardware support
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klavaro
Save the current keyboard layout (xkb_active_layout
) to a file on Sway. Useful with i3status
.
$ klavaro --help
Print the current xkb_layout in sway.
The default output file is `/tmp/.xkb_lingvo'
USAGE:
klavaro [OUTPUT_FILE]
Instalation
Local
Install to $HOME/.cargo/bin/klavaro
cargo install klavaro
Global
Install to /usr/local/bin/klavaro
sudo -E cargo install --root /usr/local klavaro
i3status
Your current Sway keyboard layout can be printed in i3status
thusly:
~/.i3status.conf
order += "read_file keyboard"
read_file keyboard {
path = "/tmp/.xkb_lingvo"
color_good = "#FFFFFF"
}
However, the klavaro
program must already be running, which can be accomplished via systemd
user service as below.
SystemD User Service
Since sway
is a user process, a systemd user service must be used in order to get the SWAYSOCK
successfully.
This is the service file needed:
/etc/systemd/user/klavaro.service
[Unit]
Description=klavaro
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/klavaro
Restart=always
RestartSec=1s
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then the service can be started:
systemctl --user enable klavaro # Schedule klavaro on startup.
systemctl --user start klavaro # Start klavaro immediately.
swaymsg
This is basically equivalent to (but muuch more efficient than)
swaymsg -r -t subscribe -m '["input"]' \
| jq '.input.xkb_active_layout_name'
and saving the result to a file.
Dependencies
~0.7–1.6MB
~35K SLoC