Hi Georg, I've been also searching same as you since I wrote a simple applet for the lxde panel to handle keyboard layouts (<a href="http://www.giuspen.com/customs">www.giuspen.com/customs</a>). In the end I generated my own glib key-value files for layouts and variants, models and toggle options using python scripts taking information from the command "man -P cat xkeyboard-config". And I ended up using system calls to setxkbmap. I also would be interested in direct calls to xkb lib but didn't find. Cheers, Giuseppe. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Georg Grabler <<a href="mailto:ggrabler@gmail.com" target="_blank">ggrabler@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello List :). I've been trying and trying again in the xkb direction to implement anything proper. I always ended up parsing the XML files myself, setting layouts by external console commands since xkb seems not to provide any .. at least working dbus interface without external tools (and i know your stance about that part - I'm fine with that). I tried to find a documentation (something like doxygen) for xkb public interfaces. I had no luck, there was something like libxkbui, but the documentation link does not work on freedesktop. Looking closer, I think it wouldn't match my needs to read and set all available keyboard layout and model anyway, but still. Is there any public interface and documentation about it? Maybe I'm just blind. Kind regards, Georg _______________________________________________ <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.x.org">xorg@lists.x.org</a>: X.Org support Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> Info: <a href="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> Your subscription address: <a href="mailto:giuspen@gmail.com">giuspen@gmail.com</a> </blockquote></div>