Great, thank you very much. Cheers, Giuseppe. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Peter Hutterer <<a href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net" target="_blank">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:49:10PM +0200, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > I'm running lxde (lubuntu 12.04) and since I need to handle 4 keyboard > layouts and there's no applet allowing this I made it manually this way: > > sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard > > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="it,us,ru,ua" > XKBVARIANT="," > XKBOPTIONS="grp:switch,grp:shift_caps_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp_led:scroll" </div>this translates into setxkbmap -layout "it,us,ru,ua" -variant "," -option ".... " you can run that anytime <div class="im"> > this works fine included the keyboard shortcut to switch layout, but I was > wondering if it was possible > somewhere to set this for the logged user only. > actually I'm thinking about writing an applet or an indicator and would > like to be able to avoid the need for > admin rights to add/remove keyboard layouts. </div>if you want it properly set, and remembered, per user, etc. you can either look at xinitrc or, better, extending your desktop environment to handle this. Cheers, Peter </blockquote></div>