xkbsel1

Usage

Overview

xkbsel is a command-line interface for selecting the keyboards, suitable for installing as action bound to some key combination in a window manager, inclusion in scripts or plain command-line usage. xkbsel supports following options:

-s MAP, --select=MAP

selects the named MAP

-n, --next

select the next map in the ordering defined by the configuration file

-p, --previous

select the previous map in the ordering defined by the configuration file

-v, --verbose

be verbose

--debug

be very verbose

--help

output brief usage instructions

--version

output the version of the program

The MAP can be specified either as full XKB name (e.g. xfree86(us) or sun/de(type4_de)), or as a shortcut defined in the configuration file. The options -n and -p only work when the current mapping was specified in the shortcut form - otherwise they select the first and the last map respectively.

Files

/etc/xkbsel.conf

system configuration file

~/.xkbsel/xkbsel.conf

user´s configuration file