multiple keyboard layouts and switch between them - place to set for local user?

[Giuseppe Penone]

Great, thank you very much.
Cheers,
Giuseppe.



On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>wrote:

> 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"
>
> this translates into
> setxkbmap -layout "it,us,ru,ua" -variant "," -option ".... "
> you can run that anytime
>
> > 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.
>
> 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
>
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