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Lord Aragorn
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 Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 1:21 pm Post subject: automatic keyboard layout change on KDE |
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I have two computers connected to one set of monitor/keyboard/mouse using a KVM. Recently I changed my keyboard and now the layout of the external is different from the laptops.
I was looking for a way to automatically change the layout when the external keyboard is connected, but with wayland delegating that functionality to KDE 6 in my case, I just can find a way to do it. There is used to be a way to do it in X11, but now it no longer works.
Does anyone know if this is even possible?
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Lord Aragorn
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| Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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ok, quick update, thanks to https://github.com/shalva97/kde-configuration-files?tab=readme-ov-file I figured the commands to do what I want, it will look something like this:
Change Layout
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#!/bin/bash
kwriteconfig6 --file kxkbrc --group Layout --key LayoutList us
kwriteconfig6 --file kxkbrc --group Layout --key VariantList intl
dbus-send --session --type=signal --reply-timeout=100 --dest=org.kde.keyboard /Layouts org.kde.keyboard.reloadConfig |
If I run this with my user it works as expected, now the udev rule to execute this(work in progress)
| Code: | SUBSYSTEM=="hid", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/kblayoutus"
SUBSYSTEM=="hid", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/kblayoutlatam"
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apart everything works as expected, but the problem is that from Udev I'm not running from my user and it just doesn't work
will provides updates if I manage to do this. |
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