kbdd (1)

kbdd [ -n | --nodaemon ]

kbdd [ -h | --help ] [ -v | --version ]

kbdd is a simple keyboard layout daemon that switches and restores layouts on a per-window basis.

-n, --nodaemon

run in nodaemon (foreground) mode

-h, --help

print a short usage summary

-v, --version

print the program version

Kbdd registers a dbus interface in order to notify a window manager about layout change and listens on this interface for incoming requests. This interface can be used in WM widgets to indicate the current layout.

The dbus interface has the following methods:

getLayoutName( uint32 )

returns a string representing the layout group name

set_layout( uint32 )

sets current group

getCurrentLayout

returns current layout group id

next_layout

switches to the next keyboard layout

prev_layout

switches to the previous keyboard layout

The following events (signals) are available:

layoutChanged

returns new group number

layoutNameChanged

returns name for the new group

You can change the layout with the following dbus-send command:

dbus-send --dest=ru.gentoo.KbddService /ru/gentoo/KbddService ru.gentoo.kbdd.set_layout uint32:1

Some users reported problems with sticking meta-keys (Alt or Meta4), however, at the moment there is not enough information collected to conclude if this is caused by kbdd or not.

Newly found bugs may be reported on

the project page at github

Alexander V. Vershilov

This manual page was updated for the Debian project by

Stanislav Maslovski

dbus-send(1), dbus-monitor(1)

You can get more information about kbdd usage on

wiki pages of the kbdd project